Sunday, May 30, 2010

Looks like we have been Penguined

You may have noticed that when you try to purchase some of our cheap reads from earlier weeks that the prices have increased significantly. Many of these increases are the result of Amazon reaching an agreement with Penguin for the agency model.

At first glance, to us it appears that Penguin has priced their e-books quite high, even for books published two, three, and four years ago. If they maintain these higher prices, they won't be selling e-books to these two cheap chicks.

We love our e-readers, but when we can get one of their books at the used book store, the thrift store, or the library book sale for $1 or less, we will choose that option.

As we all know with Kindle book pricing, it's a moving target. Maybe Penguin will realize there is a market for cheap books and price accordingly.

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