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by gnicholas 2216 days ago
> The price of an ebook has so far been the same as the price of a physical book.

When I go to buy a book, the ebook price seems to be 10-25% lower than hardcover. It could just be my experience, but this has been the case for dozens of books. I look at this difference as the lack-of-salability discount.
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Macha 2216 days ago
Right, but hardcover is usually 100% more than paperback, at least more. So 25% less than hardcover is 50% more than hardcover. And a lot of modern hardcovers are so poorly made (especially as I've learned in the last couple of years, when it comes to RPG rulebooks), it's not as if the paperback is less durable.
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gnicholas 2216 days ago
Paperback is not available at initial release, whereas the ebook is.
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