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Originally Posted by mcl
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.
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The new pricing scheme is due to be released "in early March". This means that no one should be buying Macmillan ebooks today at list price because they are supposed to get
much cheaper very soon. We will know for sure in March.
We do have one indication of what "over time" means. Macmillan suggested to Amazon that they could stick with the existing retail approach if they were willing to wait 7 months after the hardback release. This suggests that the price may go down after 7 months. If the price reduction is automatic and based on time since release, this may lead to fewer anomalies like paperbacks much cheaper than ebooks.