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I won't buy from them at all. Total boycott! | 71 | 16.75% | |
I won't buy from them at all and I will get their stuff from the darknets. | 90 | 21.23% | |
I won't buy from them at all and I will get their stuff through other legal means. | 22 | 5.19% | |
I won't buy at the higher price but I will wait some months for the price drop. | 131 | 30.90% | |
I'll buy books I'm eagerly anticipating at the higher price but wait for other stuff. | 56 | 13.21% | |
I'll buy whatever I feel like. The higher price doesn't matter to me. | 38 | 8.96% | |
Other. (Please explain.) | 16 | 3.77% | |
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02-04-2010, 08:55 AM | #31 | |
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I reject the publishers setting a fixed retail price and telling the retailers they can't sell below it. This gives all the disadvantages of competition (multiple format incompatibilities, exclusive deals etc...) and none of the benefits. I personally think that the windowed pricing is an artifact of physical books sales and is not necessary when selling electronic copies. It made sense to drop the price to get rid of your physical inventory and then introduce cheaper physical copies after you'd recovered costs (in the gravy zone). I don't have a problem with the windowed pricing but I do think it's stupid and will only drive more people to alternatives. |
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02-04-2010, 09:57 AM | #32 |
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My vote was for "I won't buy at the higher price but I will wait some months for the price drop."
I wholly support a publisher/author's right to charge what they see fit for their book. But I will never pay more for an electronic version than I would have to pay for a paperback. If that means I have to wait longer before the electronic version is priced reasonably (to me) then so be it. There are plenty of great (and even just "good") books out there at reasonable prices that I haven't read yet. I don't have to have the latest and most heavily hyped book. I can -- and do -- wait. |
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02-04-2010, 10:06 AM | #33 |
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I probably won't buy many MacMillan books anyway because the ones I want never get released as ebooks. I've never understood why most of the MacMillan/Tor SF & Fantasy is still not available as ebooks, since the readers of those genres tend to be early adopters of tech gadgets.
I normally will not buy ebooks with list price over $10, unless Fictionwise has some sale going on that brings the price down to the $4-6 range I consider acceptable. In general, if it costs more than the MMPB, I won't buy it. Even though I think it sends the wrong message to the publishers, I will buy an ebook I want that's over $20 if I can get it with a 100% micropay rebate at Fictionwise. In some ways, that's my biggest gripe about the Fictionwise sales, is that I suspect it doesn't send the publishers the message that they are overpricing some ebooks. |
02-04-2010, 01:11 PM | #34 |
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What's changed is that out off all the books we tell ourselves we'll get when they come out in paperback, we forget a good deal of them. Or we get them from a friend or the library. More and more libraries have ebooks. The new releases have a waiting list but I'll just put myself on the list at this point. I'll likely get the book before the price drops. We find them used. They could pick up a lot of sales at $10 that they likely would have lost with people waiting for $7. They'd get more money sooner. It maximizes their marketing, too.
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02-04-2010, 01:15 PM | #35 |
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I went with 'other'. You can't boycott a product that isn't available for sale, and of the books I'm interested in buying that Macmillan has the publication rights to, none are available as commercial e-books. Price only matters for products that you actually sell, after all.
If Macmillan ever decide they're interested in actually publishing books I shall have to examine the situation as it stands then. I suspect I'll end up downloading a copy from the darknet and buying a copy of a different book by the same author from another publisher, ideally one that sells to the reader at more reasonable prices and pays better royalties to the author. |
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02-04-2010, 01:15 PM | #36 |
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02-04-2010, 01:16 PM | #37 |
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02-04-2010, 01:22 PM | #38 |
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02-04-2010, 01:26 PM | #39 |
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I hadn't noticed that but I just popped over to my library website and, sure enough, no MacMillan. Another reason to dislike them. I have gotten a lot of HarperCollins titles there, though. Sadly a couple of our favorite authors are on Tor. I wish we could convince them to jump ship and go to Baen. My husband is in the middle of a series. He gladly paid $9.99 for the first two. He says he doesn't even know if he'll bother with third. He figures if he's waiting for it to come out and then has to wait another 6 months or so for the price drop, he'll likely have lost interest. He's a lot more thrifty with books than I am, probably because he goes through them more quickly. I only read a book a week on average. He reads at least two.
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02-04-2010, 01:27 PM | #40 |
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Authors. You lose. I will not even consider buying and reading your fiction work if it is:
Sold as dead tree HC or Trade PB only. Any e-book with proprietary DRM or tied to a device brand. RETAIL Priced above a Mass market PB (no rebates, no point credits) if no DRM (when I am done, I can give my copy away, just like my dead tree book). With price over half the Retail of a MM PB version if infested with DRM. |
02-04-2010, 01:29 PM | #41 |
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Oh, I wasn't laughing, believe me. That wasn't *quite* a direct quote, but it was pretty close. From a discussion on publishing, in which somebody asked Sargent why no Macmillan e-books are (or ever will be) available from libraries.
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02-04-2010, 01:41 PM | #42 |
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I don't buy ebooks of paperbacks for $15, if the book's in paperback for $8 and I can't get an ebook for about that price I won't buy the ebook. I have bought ebooks of hardcovers for $15, and the current mess isn't going to make me change my buying habits.
Macmillan generally charges too much for their ebooks, and so I normally avoid buying ebooks of Macmillan titles. If they do bring ebooks down to paperback level prices for books currently in paperback I may end up buying more ebooks from them. If not, I won't. I am still likely to buy books I really want for $15 because I'll already do it for E-arcs so it's no different. Luckily I don't own a Kindle, so I don't have to give Amazon money if I am going to buy DRM'd bestsellers. |
02-04-2010, 01:44 PM | #43 | |
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02-04-2010, 01:50 PM | #44 | |
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They may not care about me, it depends on how many people will buy when the items are "hot", and how high they can rev the hype machine. But the hype machine eats money, so publishers are going to have to think things through carefully. |
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02-04-2010, 02:01 PM | #45 | |
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I would expect Amazon to retaliate by holding occasional "site wide ebook sale!!--except for Macmillan books" promotions. 10% off all kindlebooks (with Amazon eating the loss from their cut) for a holiday weekend--and a text-tag on every Macmillan kindlebook, in the spot where the sale price would be, saying that Macm's contract does not allow Amazon to offer sales of Macm's ebooks. |
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