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Why are Kindle ebooks so expensive?
- youor 4y ago
- bediger4000 4y ago"Intellectual Property" laws allow economic rent seeking. As we all know, in a free market, the cost of a good trends towards its marginal cost of production. But monopolies (or even oligopolistic competition) keeps that from happening. See Microsoft and the price of Windows. Same thing here. Rent seeking.
- jethronethro 4y agoBook publishers are like any other business: they exist to try to make a profit. Of course they're going to charge as much as they can for their wares. I'm not sure why this comes as a surprise to some.