Originally Posted by
station82o
EH... you have a point but I don't know about people not buying hardback books - They do, I see it with my own eyes at work. Case in point... the last Harry Potter book, when it came out it priced at a hefty $29.99, very very expensive for a simple novel, but it sold what over a million nationwide in the first 24 hours! People had already heard before hand that the paperback wouldn't come out until a year and a half from then so they could not wait and splurged... I worked that midnight sale, some people even bought 3-4 copies, one for each household member - ridiculous. DaVinci Code, same deal - the publisher tells retailers that the ETA on the paperback of that book is 4th quarter 2006 (long fricken wait), we have to tell that to customers (even though we're sure it'll be out before then, but publishers and retailers work cooperatively to extend a hardback's shelf life) and they always just shrug and grab a copy of the hardback and unleash the wallet.
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