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Dennis, do you have anything to backup that Amazon pays less per Kindle book than it does hbacks?
As for competing for time? Yes, but also for dollars. I don't buy hardbacks. The exception was the Harry Potter books. I also don't pay the outrageous prices the agencies now want for ebooks. Yes, the ones I want are less than the hbacks, but I found a few that are out in paperback, and the prices is between the two. Surely they have made their money from the hback sales? Or at least the hback time? Why have the electronic version be MORE than the pback? What is their cost?
Most people I know that read are willing to pay pback prices for electronic versions, or a little more if no out in pback yet, but not a huge amount. Thirteen dollars is a standard price I have seen, and we won't pay it. But again, if I wait will the price of the ebook come down? Or will the price stay the same, even as the hback price comes down?
I think if they really want to the publishers can make this work, but that is the point. They. Don't. Want. To.
I feel they forced agency pricing on ebooks because they are afraid of the medium, not because they were getting less per book from Amazon. If I contract for you to sell wigglies for me I can set the price I charge you, and suggest a MSRP that I tell everyone, but I do not have the right to tell you that you cannot sell wigglies for LESS than you paid me. That is your business, I get $X/wigglie either way.
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