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Old 10-08-2010, 09:24 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
Yep.

A lot of the "They had to know" comments about publishers on this thread prompt a "What do you mean by 'they'?" response from me. Most publishers are units of big companies, and employ thousands of people. Assuming that all employees are of the same mind and on the same page is just silly. Often the left hand really doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and sometimes that bites them on the butt.

Dennis

That isn't necessarily true. Hatchette is one publisher where the e-books are consistently two dollars higher than the LIST price of the paperback. (7.99 vs. 9.99) I e-mailed them about it a few times, and only got the response: "Those are the prices and we aren't changing them for the time being.) Well before the agency model; I bought about 10-20 of their reasonably priced e-books. (Which was a duplicate buy because many of them I already owned) Since the books now are higher than paperbacks that have been in circulation for years, I haven't bought any of their e-books. Or paperback books. Or hardcovers.

I just borrow from friends or the library and it is a shame because I would buy them if they were priced reasonably.
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