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Fragile Things
Why are the 6 ebook volumes of Selections from Fragile Things cheaper than the Fragile Things ebook. AFAICT, the 6 volumes of selections is everything in the book.
The selections are $0.99 each, or a total of $5.94. The Kindle edition of the whole thing is $8.76. The Fictionwise edition is $10.95.
The mass market paperback is $7.99, BTW. I recognize that the cost of physical production and delivery is only a portion of the total cost, and possibly not a large portion at that. Besides, in a capitalist economy, the price isn't driven by cost of production. It's driven by what the market will bear. (Cost of production is important only in that you'd like to eventually make a profit.) Still, it's weird to have the ebook be more expensive than the mass market paperback.
(Ok, to be fair, if enough customers place more value on ebooks than on books, that would explain a greater price for ebooks too. I don't have a Kindle. I just recently got the iPhone. Are ebooks really so much better than a mass market paperback that we will pay a premium for them?)
In any case, I just find it odd that getting the anthology in six pieces is cheaper than getting it all at once. I double checked, but I might have missed something. It certainly seems like the entire anthology.
The selections are $0.99 each, or a total of $5.94. The Kindle edition of the whole thing is $8.76. The Fictionwise edition is $10.95.
The mass market paperback is $7.99, BTW. I recognize that the cost of physical production and delivery is only a portion of the total cost, and possibly not a large portion at that. Besides, in a capitalist economy, the price isn't driven by cost of production. It's driven by what the market will bear. (Cost of production is important only in that you'd like to eventually make a profit.) Still, it's weird to have the ebook be more expensive than the mass market paperback.
(Ok, to be fair, if enough customers place more value on ebooks than on books, that would explain a greater price for ebooks too. I don't have a Kindle. I just recently got the iPhone. Are ebooks really so much better than a mass market paperback that we will pay a premium for them?)
In any case, I just find it odd that getting the anthology in six pieces is cheaper than getting it all at once. I double checked, but I might have missed something. It certainly seems like the entire anthology.