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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9664593" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>The prices of books have been more or less static for ages. Not actually unchanging, but close enough that they've increased slower than inflation rate for a while. We've finally been seeing adjustment, especially for mass market paperbacks from popular authors.</p><p></p><p>eBook prices when they first came out were artificially depressed to allow them to catch on, and that set expectations that they should be a lot lower in cost than paperbacks. And that's both absolutely true by removing the print and distribution costs, but not as severe as it seems because you are still getting the full content and undermining print sales by enough to make them no longer viable isn't in anyone's interest.</p><p></p><p>So eBook prices, <em>though Amazon</em>, have increased with the print price increases. There are still plenty of eBooks out there much cheaper. But they are usually ebook only and don't have to compete with print versions of themselves.</p><p></p><p>Now, other publishers like Kobo offer ebooks cheaper. But Amazon just took steps earlier this year disallowing download of your ebooks. You can deliver them but not download them, which prevents you from side-loading them into an eReader connected to another publisher.</p><p></p><p>Frankly, because of that I will no longer buy eBooks through Amazon. That said, they've made it easy to read their books on my Kindle, and a pain to read others to try to incentivize me. (I greatly prefer eInk for reading over a backlit screen like on phone or tablet.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 9664593, member: 20564"] The prices of books have been more or less static for ages. Not actually unchanging, but close enough that they've increased slower than inflation rate for a while. We've finally been seeing adjustment, especially for mass market paperbacks from popular authors. eBook prices when they first came out were artificially depressed to allow them to catch on, and that set expectations that they should be a lot lower in cost than paperbacks. And that's both absolutely true by removing the print and distribution costs, but not as severe as it seems because you are still getting the full content and undermining print sales by enough to make them no longer viable isn't in anyone's interest. So eBook prices, [I]though Amazon[/I], have increased with the print price increases. There are still plenty of eBooks out there much cheaper. But they are usually ebook only and don't have to compete with print versions of themselves. Now, other publishers like Kobo offer ebooks cheaper. But Amazon just took steps earlier this year disallowing download of your ebooks. You can deliver them but not download them, which prevents you from side-loading them into an eReader connected to another publisher. Frankly, because of that I will no longer buy eBooks through Amazon. That said, they've made it easy to read their books on my Kindle, and a pain to read others to try to incentivize me. (I greatly prefer eInk for reading over a backlit screen like on phone or tablet.) [/QUOTE]
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