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Kindle edition of Brainiac

Postby phenshaw » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:01 pm

So let's recap:

Hardback at Amazon - $4.40
PB at Amazon - $10.17
Kindle edition - $11.99

Worth of trees = - $1.82.

What a shame. Just saying.

(I was going to add a poll asking if e-books should cost more than paper, but decided I really don't want to know how people justify that e-books should cost more.)

Oh, yeah, I'm one of those OLD people, Ken. Waving at ya, sweetie!
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Postby Ken Jennings » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:03 pm

Yeah, what is up with that? I will ask Random House.
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Postby Ken Jennings » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:08 am

Just realized I never responded here. Short answer: because publishers fix e-book prices, but retailers can set the prices of print books whereve they want. The result is that Random House could price the Kindle Brainiac as low as they wanted...but Amazon or whoever else could always undersell that for reasons of their own.

If you are one convinced that publishing is scared of what e-books represent for their future, there may still be grist for your mill here. For example: if Amazon's current discount on the Brainiac trade paperback isn't unusual...then why did Random House set the e-book price higher than what they knew Amazon would charge for paper?
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Postby econgator » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:45 am

Ken Jennings wrote:Just realized I never responded here.


So, a spammer's post actually served a useful purpose! Who'd've thunk it? :)
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