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Originally Posted by wallcraft
I have not been a fan of Macmillan for ebooks, but they do seem to have tied themselves very publicly to a new model of pricing where ebooks start at $14.99 and $12.99 and go down over time to perhaps less than the paperback price ($5.99). If this was only Macmillan I would be deeply sceptical, but if 5 of the top 6 US publishers use the same approach ebook buyers will come to expect it.
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And the problem here is "over time". Nobody's specified how long that time is, but current evidence (go look at the list price of Macmillan ebooks on the B&N website, for example) points to the fact that "over time" is "sometime after you die". Macmillan still has the list price of ebooks set at $12-30, for books that have been out in mass-market paperback for a long time.