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Old 03-14-2011, 08:11 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by ATDrake View Post
Open Road Media are the same company which said that they'd like to break Amazon's usual 9.99 price threshold for e-books....
They also apparently offer authors a 50% royalty rate, and are going up against big pubs for their author's ebook rights.

And the new Einstein books are all $10 -- and Amazon apparently set the price. It doesn't look like they use agency pricing.

Wow, what a pack of hyenas.


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Originally Posted by ATDrake
I think someone has a disproportionately skewed idea of what the likely actual market value of their catalogue is.
Perhaps, but they aren't setting the price, so if it's too expensive you can blame Amazon.
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