I gotta say, for a "concerted effort" I don't think they're doing a good job. E.g. one title cited in the article (
Surface Detail) had a whopping 18 price-related one-star reviews. Woah.
By the way, people have been doing this for months. I seriously doubt it's going to change much.
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Here's the basic problem. When I pay for a digital edition, I neither own it nor control it in the way I do a copy of the print edition....
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Uh huh. You also can't back up your paper edition a hundred times at virtually no cost and with perfect fidelity in a matter of seconds; you can't restore your backup an unlimited number of times; you can't have your paper book instantaneously sent to you via a cell phone connection; you can't do a keyword search on your paper book; you can't alter or hide the annotations you make to a paper book.
They are completely different formats, with their own pros and cons. And price, by the way, has very little to do with cost. Sorry to say that the belief that "price" has a necessary reliance on "cost" is a naïve view.
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Originally Posted by Ken Irving
They shouldn't let Amazon fix the prices (as Apple did with iTunes)....
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Uh. So you don't want the publishers
or the retailers to set prices....?
By the way, a) retailers actually make a higher percentage of the sale in the agency model, and b) publishers are, in fact, talking about giving authors a higher percentage of the sale, due to the upcoming lower prices for many books.