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Old 07-17-2010, 03:21 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by SensualPoet View Post
Your book is actually $11.99 from Amazon as a Kindle outside of the US (eg. Canada).

That's a bit much to pay when Rex Stout's Prisoner's Base is $7.93; Ian Rankin's Exit Music is $7.61; Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is $6.79; Joseph Wambaugh's The Choirboys is $6.29; Robert B Parker's Mortal Stakes is $6.29; Ed McBain's Big Bad City is $5.99 ... I could go on, but I hope you take the point.
It's not a fair comparison. All the books you are referencing were published long ago (the most recent is Rankin's Exit Music, which was published in 2008) by major publishers and authors...and have long since made their money back. PRISONERS' BASE ( a book I adapted for television a few years back) was published sixty years ago!

In this case, we are talking about a small publisher with an original publication. Not the same economics at all.

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