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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
Like you, Lee, I've never actually liked or bought many hard cover books: they are bulk, hard to handle and store; I have ALWAYS preferred paperbacks. Of these, trade paper are my preference ... but not when it's $20 vs $10. But I'd argue the publisher likes me anyway: they want to sell 2 hard cover, 5 trade paper and 25 mass paper ... as long as I am in that ecosystem, they're happy. And they probably do care about me.
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Ok, I admit my use of hyperbole. You and I don't matter WHEN IT COMES to the hard back pricing window. They care very much about those who are willing to pay hard back book prices that they went to war with their number 1 distributor. They care so much, that they were willing to make LESS per ebook sold than they were getting from Amazon before.
That's a lot of caring -- but only because they have millions of folks buying those expensive hard back books. When it comes to that time window, that pricing scheme, you and I do not matter to them. We never did.
Lee