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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
But once they've done that, they don't charge more for the exquisitely well-written, lingers-in-your-mind-for-decades books. The ones that will change the lives of readers and the ones that will be read once, pondered for fifteen minutes, and then forgotten, are side-by-side on the shelf, with the same sticker price if they came off the press at the same time.
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The publisher doesn't know how each individual person is going to react to the book. I may find some book incredibly moving, but you may see the same book as dreadfully boring.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
While it might seem a bit restrictive to limit your content provider's pricing options, mandating that all authors sell their books for 1 dollar might be an interesting option for booksellers to consider.
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How is this different from agency pricing??
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
After reading the article yesterday, I've been considering whether or not this experiment might work for me. I'm currently debating either: - Picking a book (or maybe even the three Kestral books) and dropping the price to .99;
- dropping my entire catalog to .99; or
- pricing my next new and re-released book(s) at .99.
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I would suggest lowering the price on your older books (and especially any books first in a series) to bring people in, then they'll be more willing to pay more money for your new work because they'll have some faith in the content. I discovered Robin Hobb's Farseer series from a freebie almost 2 years ago, then I promptly bought the rest of the series and have read many of her other series as well.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Amazon mandated a 9.99 price for all books and the idea was rejected, so I suppose a 0.99 mandated price would be rejected as well.
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Amazon didn't
mandate anything. It offered items on the NYT Best Seller list at a discounted amount of $9.99 until agency pricing took over.