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Calidoc  Posts: 92
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GrimTempest posted:
Calidoc posted:
The only used books I've been looking for are 1-3 of Codex Alera. Found 3, still need 1 &2...
<edit> Hardcover
yeah based on whats out there...you may have trouble with that....
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=butcher&bi=h&bx=off&ds=30&recentlyadded=all&sortby=17&sts=t&tn=furies+of+ calderon&x=0&y=0
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=butcher&bi=h&bx=off&ds=30&recentlyadded=all&sortby=17&sts=t&tn=academ%27s +fury&x=63&y=14
Well, the price has come down at least. I check local used places every so often, but I'm not expecting anything.
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Raiztlin  Title: Dick Tracy
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Registered: 2002-1-23 08:10:37
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Dune (40th Anniversary Edition) by Frank Herbert (Kindle Edition - Aug 2, 2005) - Kindle eBook
Buy: $11.49
Anyways. I still buy alot of books in paper. Mostly Hardcover, but others as well. Main reason? gets released earlyer then e-books.
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GrimTempest  Title: Board Manager
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weird. i see it for 14 bucks on kindle. different country or amazon membership maybe.
i should have checked the price rather than just believing what i saw posted though.
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vn_vigilante66 Title: GO TEAM VENTURE!
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Dune was priced at 17$ just a few weeks ago. Ended up buying the book in store for half the price. I emailed Amazon about the price and they said it was the publisher who set the price and they couldnt do anything about it.
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GrimTempest Title: Board Manager
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vn_vigilante66 posted:
Dune was priced at 17$ just a few weeks ago. Ended up buying the book in store for half the price. I emailed Amazon about the price and they said it was the publisher who set the price and they couldnt do anything about it.
yeah thats their new catch all phrase for ebook complaints. theres a big story behind that. they were pricing ebooks so cheap it was going to wreck the pricing for all books and screw up the whole industry. basically the publishers want ebooks competitive but they don't want to push paper out of business. amazon wouldn't listen to the publishers though so one of them finally said fine we don't want you selling our ebooks, take them off your site. well amazons response to this was to pull ebooks and all regular books by that publisher in a sort of mob tactics move to force them to go along with what amazon wanted. the publisher stood firm and a week later amazon relented when they saw their bluff failed and agreed to raise the prices and the rest of the publishers followed. so amazon decided they have to make sure all the buyers know that its the publishers and not them that are the bad guys who raised prices 
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vn_jurojin Title: Insolent Insomniac
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Registered: 2001-12-20 03:26:39
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Caoilin posted:
ugh i would never buy a used book. ever.
Just out of morbid curiosity, I'd like to know if my initial guess about your reasoning here is correct.
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Raiztlin Title: Dick Tracy
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Registered: 2002-1-23 08:10:37
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GrimTempest posted:
so amazon decided they have to make sure all the buyers know that its the publishers and not them that are the bad guys who raised prices
Well.. it's the truth.. good reasons or not, it IS the publishers who has set the high price 
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Yossarian_42  Title: RUSH > ALL
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It annoys me on principal that ebook prices are inflated in order to subsidize paper books.
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Raiztlin Title: Dick Tracy
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They really arent.. Not much anyway. Believe it or not, unless a e-book sells exceptionally well, it's not really alot cheaper to make/distribute than a paperbook.
(This goes for Norway, but I'm fairly sure it's more or less true elsewhere as well)
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GrimTempest Title: Board Manager
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Yossarian_42 posted:
It annoys me on principal that ebook prices are inflated in order to subsidize paper books.
as raizt said, thats not really the case. walmart, amazon and target have all broken antitrust laws in the last two years with the prices of regular books as well by pricing them below the cost paid for them. its predatory pricing.
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