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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
....you are assuming you are representative of the market for that book. I'm assuming you are not....
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I believe most if not all your arguments are defeated by what we've seen in the music market over the last few years.
I think
Sonist pretty well does sum up a large expanse of the market.
And perception is the thing: you'll never convince the book-buying public that an ebook is worth even 50% of the price of a paperback let alone a hardcover. They know they aren't buying a book: they can never sell it, loan it, pass it to their kids. Ebooks make books a disposable commodity and the public will expect them to be priced accordingly.
I've bought nearly 300 ebooks since May, most in the 99c to 3.99 price range from indie authors. Only two cost more than $10, and about 10-15 around $9. Very few of those indie books failed to maintain my interest for whatever reason; I don't think the ratio would be much worse than with big name authors and publishing houses.
Either publishers get rid of agency models and adapt very quickly, or they will be dinosaurs. The ebook leaps ahead very quickly and the Agency 6 are being left behind.