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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
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. 
Perhaps, but they aren't setting the price, so if it's too expensive you can blame Amazon. |
Hey, if Open Road Media wants to set a higher pre-retailer-discount "suggested retail" list of $14.99 for books because they wanted to raise their selling prices from what they saw as the standard Amazon $9.99 point (which was the part of my post you omitted from what you chose to quote) on books originally published in the 80s by midlist authors, that's up to them.
I'm just saying that their apparent expectations for returns may be mildly unrealistic. A 50% author royalty is generous on paper, but when it has to be gathered from potentially fewer sales due to possibly off-putting higher price point, it's still 50% of potentially nothing. These books will be competing against the current new bestseller stuff price-point-wise, after all.
But who knows, maybe fewer sales at a much higher price to more affluent customers may make up for things.
I know I certainly won't be spending $180 to pick up all 18 books on Barbara Hambly's Open Road-acquired old paperback backlist at the hypothetically favourable price of $9.99 post-discount-by-Amazon each when I could be spending that money to buy her completely new releases (3 expected for this year alone).
And to put things in perspective, she's one of the only 3 authors for whom I ever auto-buy the new HC/TPB releases as they come out instead of waiting for library or cheaper sale/mmpb edition to read first.