Thread: Random House adopts agency pricing March 1st
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Old 03-01-2011, 10:58 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by Guns4Hire View Post
Has anyone actually seen this fabled 'reduction'?
Yes.

It usually takes about a year for the price changes to kick in, and it's often cued to paperback release timing.

I don't usually buy books that are either brand new or over $12, but a few from my collection have popped up, and yes they're all agency priced:

"Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives" and "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error" were each $14 when I purchased it last year, and are now $10. Other books I've purchased have gone down by $1-2.

A quick check of agency-priced books that are now $10 or less, that were on the HC best seller list early last year: "Lost Symbol" (Dan Brown), "Impact" (Preston), "The Last Song" (Sparks), "The Honor of Spies" (Griffin).

So, yeah. I can't definitively say how many agency books are priced lower, but it's definitely happening.
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