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>All logic suggests the electronic version should be cheaper. You get the same book either way. Why should it be cheaper. You could even argue that instant dow
by rhino369 11y ago
>All logic suggests the electronic version should be cheaper.
You get the same book either way. Why should it be cheaper. You could even argue that instant download to your kindle is a convenience worth paying for.
But it's silly that Amazon is selling them for more. Often times much more.
- hga 11y agoIndeed, it's a lesson many of us find very difficult to learn, that the price someone is willing to buy something at has little relationship to what it costs. This book is the best I've read on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Walking-High-Tech-High-Wire-Entrepreneurs/dp/0070004684 http://www.amazon.com/Walking-High-Tech-High-Wire-Entreprene... But it's silly that Amazon is selling them for more. Often times much more. Not by choice. Amazon tried to set some reasonable price points, and the big five refused to play ball (remember their conspiracy with Apple?), ultimately renegotiating their contracts to agency pricing. Which is why so many of their books cost so much now.
- Turing_Machine 11y ago"You get the same book either way. Why should it be cheaper." Because it's not being printed in China on slices of dead tree, shipped across the Pacific Ocean, shipped to a wholesaler, shipped to a retailer, sitting on expensive retail shelf space for months, and then (if it doesn't sell) being shipped back the other way for full credit? Why should it not be cheaper? If customers don't get their ebooks cheaper from the major publishing houses, they'll get them cheaper from someone else.