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Originally Posted by CleverClothe
Wait, you think that $14.99 at Amazon and $14.99 at Apple and $14.99 at Kobo is price competition? And you are saying I'm a brick shy? 
Even the publisher's have admitted this. I've seen some reality distortion field effects, but this is new to me. |
Yes, there is competition. A book is not only competing with itself, but with OTHER books. How can folks crow about ebook sales shifting away from the Agency 5 publishers towards lower priced ebooks and at the SAME time say that Agency pricing is uncompetitive?
If you raise prices you are supposed to expect lower sales. Why should a publisher put out an ebook for $9.99 when it's still wishing to sell it's $25 hard backs? Lunacy. We expect there to be competition in the MARKET, but no one is supposed to have to compete with THEIR OWN PRODUCT (unless they want to).
You don't want to pay $14.99 for the ebook, then pay $18.99 for the hard back (on sale). What? You don't want to pay the new hard back price either? Then wait a year for the paper back to come out like you always used to do.
Lee