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In response to "With the new Kindle e-book pricing, I am finding Kindle books that cost more than their paper-bound kin. That is completely absurd. -- nm" by ty97

Blame Apple. Or possibly Barbes and Noble. They broke Amazon's lock on pricing.

Posted by Beryllium (iPhone) (aka grayman) May 23 '10, 09:26

Just like Amazon forced Apple's hand on MP3 pricing.

I remember when magical theories of competition used to mean LOWER prices.

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It's the publishers, certainly. If they can get the prices, more power to them. - ty97 May 23, 10:21
B&N didn't force it, publishers did. Competition from B&N would have forced prices down. - TWuG May 23, 09:49 7
- Nope, what I'm talking about is New, paper-bound, sold by amazon VS Kindle. - ty97 May 23, 10:20 3
  - I haven't seen it yet, but I know that the price differential has been nearly nonexistent on some books I've bought - TWuG May 23, 10:25 2
    - link? - workmanda May 23, 11:05
    - I find it relatively commonplace for the prices to be similar/identical and that bugs me some. - ty97 May 23, 10:26
- The initiation of the iTunes Book Store and the Nook book store gave publishers leverage to force Amazon's hand. -- nm - Beryllium May 23, 10:04
- I think 97 is smart enough to know used from new. -- nm - workmanda May 23, 10:00 1
  - He didn't say "new" so I wasn't sure what he was seeing. - TWuG May 23, 10:21

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