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More E-Book Pricing Weirdness

JD

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I was just looking around on the Barnes & Noble website, and now the Trek ebooks prices range from $3.99 all the way up to $8.99. Why would there be such a drastic difference?
Here's an example:
Best Destiny: $5.99
Sarek: $8.99
The Lost Years: $5.99
Doctor's Orders: $5.99
Ishmael: $8.99
Vulcan's Forge: $8.99
Zero Sum Game: $3.99
Starfleet Academy: The Edge: $3.99
ENT: Kobayashi Maru: $3.99
 
The $3.99 books are on a special discount until November 14th, so those should go up again in a week or so.
 
E-book pricing is wacky indeed. Some on the Kobo store go as high as $12.99 For example Stargazer: Maker. No reason a single e-book should be priced that high.
 
^Really? That wasn't ever a hardcover, was it?
Defcon said:
The $3.99 books are on a special discount until November 14th, so those should go up again in a week or so.
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I remember you guys talking about them being marked down, I just couldn't remember if it was permanent or not.
 
E-Books should never cost more than what a regular book costs in paperback.

I don't care what people say about E-Book production. It's wrong to charge higher prices for the same content just because it's in digital form.

And for what it's worth, Pocket should consider releasing "E-book Packs" from the back catalog to entice people to buy up older titles in digital form. Kinda like Comic Trades which collect various issues, you could do TNG #1-10, 11-20, etc. etc.
 
Technobuilder said:
E-Books should never cost more than what a regular book costs in paperback.
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Which is where the $8.99 price seems to be coming from - S&S has started to price non-Trek MMPBs at that price point. I'm surprised their Trek books (especially David R. George's two books next year, which are... quite likely to be oversized) haven't made the jump up yet.
 
Ah, that might explain it then. Although, I would think it would be the new books that cost more, not books that are 22-14 years old.
Honestly, it's not the fact that some of the E-Books are $8.99 that has me annoyed, it's the fact that it's old books that are being priced there.
 
JD said:
Ah, that might explain it then. Although, I would think it would be the new books that cost more, not books that are 22-14 years old.
Honestly, it's not the fact that some of the E-Books are $8.99 that has me annoyed, it's the fact that it's old books that are being priced there.
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Well, that argument really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. How old a book is or how much it cost on its first printing doesn't and shouldn't have anything to do with what it costs later. If you use that argument, The Hobbit could probably be had for 30 to 50 cents (or less) when it was first published. I certainly don't think any reasonable person buying a new copy today would expect the publisher to sell it for that.

Plain and simple, old ST pb used to sell for $3.99, $4.99, $5.99, what have you. As they're reprinted, they're likely going to be priced at whatever the current going rate is, not what it was originally priced at in 1984 or 1992. That just seems like common sense to me.

- Byron
 
^The earliest ST paperbacks from Pocket ran around $2.50. My 1975 reprint edition of Spock Must Die! from Bantam was $1.25.
 
I love those early prices like star trek enterprise the first adventure was $3.50 as final frontier. though I do like the $3.99 sale that is going on.


I was wondering has any one picked up the new kindle fire yet?
 
As the Kindle Fire won't be shipped until November 15th I doubt that anyone here has it yet.
 
my bad I thought it comes out next week that's the new nook color. sorry got over excited about both of them.

by the way love the sheldon avatar.
 
bfollowell said:
JD said:
Ah, that might explain it then. Although, I would think it would be the new books that cost more, not books that are 22-14 years old.
Honestly, it's not the fact that some of the E-Books are $8.99 that has me annoyed, it's the fact that it's old books that are being priced there.
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Well, that argument really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. How old a book is or how much it cost on its first printing doesn't and shouldn't have anything to do with what it costs later. If you use that argument, The Hobbit could probably be had for 30 to 50 cents (or less) when it was first published. I certainly don't think any reasonable person buying a new copy today would expect the publisher to sell it for that.

Plain and simple, old ST pb used to sell for $3.99, $4.99, $5.99, what have you. As they're reprinted, they're likely going to be priced at whatever the current going rate is, not what it was originally priced at in 1984 or 1992. That just seems like common sense to me.

- Byron
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But then why aren't they pricing the new books at $8.99?
 
Technobuilder said:
E-Books should never cost more than what a regular book costs in paperback.

I don't care what people say about E-Book production. It's wrong to charge higher prices for the same content just because it's in digital form.

And for what it's worth, Pocket should consider releasing "E-book Packs" from the back catalog to entice people to buy up older titles in digital form. Kinda like Comic Trades which collect various issues, you could do TNG #1-10, 11-20, etc. etc.
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Ohhh, I like that idea.
 
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