sswslitinmotion:

Interesting read.  My observation: remember paperback books?  Remember when paperback books were $4 or less? That meant people got cheap books and got to read and stuff like that. I like my ereader and all, and the convenience of having a bunch of ebooks in one gadget, but I feel weird seeing ebooks at $11, when back in the day, a paperback would have been that much cheaper and a hardcover used to be the $11 book.  Now, ebook pricing is all over the place and paperbacks - trade paperbacks, especially, being in pretty covers and quality paper - are $11, and hardcovers are anywhere above $20.  Free market factors or consumer demand does this?  Really?  I’m not an economist, or a consumer affairs sort, or an anti-trust lawyer.  But: hmm…

Remember how much money e-readers were supposed to save book buyers? It was among the big reasons why 20 million Americans decided to take the plunge.

So why is it that consumers are still paying through the nose for e-book titles that ought to cost a fraction of the price charged for the used hardcover version?

(Source: calimae)