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Originally Posted by meme
I think I misread the title of the thread based on your comments (but then it does get attention  ) It seems that what you meant by 'It's IMPOSSIBLE to price ebooks too high' isn't that publishers can set high prices and get away with it, its that if publishers do set too high a price then the market will act to make it a bad strategy, so in the end they'll lower them until they make an acceptable profit. |
Right on both counts. There is so much anger and passion on this forum due to ebook pricing -- and it's so out of disproportion to the situation. If an ebook is priced higher than you want to pay, then don't buy it. There is no reason for all the huffing and puffing. The publishers CAN NOT POSSIBLY get away with pricing the books TOO HIGH.
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Originally Posted by meme
For ebooks, I hope they know the reason they aren't being bought is because of price and not because there isn't a market for them...
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I still hold to my opinion that most of the issue here is really about folks who were never before part of the "new release book" market before. (reference my "You don't matter and you never did" thread).
Amazon was trying to buy up market share and give folks reason to buy their $400 ereader by SUBSIDIZING the price of ebooks. Folks were spoiled by getting "new release books" at the "paper back book price". So when the publishers, acting in their own self interest, put a stop to that -- Oh the SOUND and the FURY.
There needn't be. Either there is a market for $14.99 new release ebooks or therer is not. All of our debates on how much cost savings there is with ebooks, or the horrors of DRM don't matter a whit. All that matters is whether or not folks will BUY books at those prices. If they don't, the publishers will lower the price. Not because WE think they should, but in their own self interest, they will do what makes sense for them.
Lee