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12-16-2011, 06:45 PM | #32 |
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12-16-2011, 07:06 PM | #33 | |
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12-16-2011, 07:20 PM | #34 |
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I do have to say that the lack of ebook sales really does kill off impulse sales. I don't know how many games I've bought off steam lately, because of a sale. Most of them I've not played (I don't use Windows, and not everything likes Wine), but were an impulse buy. "zOMG! IT IS 50% off!". I mean, I can't remember the last ebook I've bought. Almost everything has been from the library, or freebies.
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12-16-2011, 09:42 PM | #35 |
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Buying used books for half list price (or less) and then selling them when you're done reading them doesn't take any space either, and it's much cheaper than ebooks. It is my hope that the publishers will eventually decide that there should be a ebook price-point that corresponds to the used paper book market, but I don't expect that to happen until most of the likely buyers of eReaders have done so and are done buying their "must-haves".
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12-16-2011, 09:55 PM | #36 | |
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12-16-2011, 10:12 PM | #37 |
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12-16-2011, 10:32 PM | #38 | |
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12-16-2011, 10:39 PM | #39 |
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12-16-2011, 10:56 PM | #40 |
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In that case an ebook would be worth a LOT more than a pbook, since it would be vastly superior in every way. I don't think we should ask for that, it could well mean ebook prices would have to be double what pbooks go for. They never get damaged and could be passed along endlessly (even if just a single copy remained in existence that could be a lot more readers per copy than with a pbook).
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12-16-2011, 10:59 PM | #41 |
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Of course, the retailers aren't happy if you buy a $0.99 ebook instead of the $9.99 one.
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12-17-2011, 01:38 AM | #42 | |
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12-17-2011, 03:18 AM | #43 |
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From the point of view of an economist, there is simply zero evidence that agency pricing is hurting Ebook sales, which have tripled since the introduction of agency pricing.
There are many examples of producers of content setting prices. In some countries it's not only legal, it's required. Allegations that publishers colluded to fix prices are just that- allegations. Allegations aren't evidence. The Justice Department is doing its job in carrying out an investigation, but unless it uncovers evidence that the publishers are somehow sitting down together somewhere and setting prices on books or groups of books, then they will conclude their investigation with a finding that the allegations are unproven. Last edited by stonetools; 12-17-2011 at 03:39 AM. |
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Hmm... it seems to me that each publisher has a monopoly on each book that they
publish. There are not different publishers competing to provide different versions of the same book by the same author. I would also say that the value of a book is in what a consumer is willing to pay. If you ask me, I don't think that all ebooks should be valued at $9.99 or any other arbitrary price. That "Agency Pricing" results in a set price for whole classes of ebook releases, and that the pricing changes in lockstep with the other publishers ebooks, make it obvious that there is some sort of collusion involved. Luck; Ken |
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