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That's okay, it only took me about two years to talk my publisher into it. I'm very stubborn.
I was devastated when they stopped selling the $5 version and moved to a $16 each via a middle-man. The first I knew was when the upset emails started coming through. What I did was to tell people unofficially to buy one of the $16 ones, and then I'd email them the others for free. I couldn't exactly put that on my website though, and it killed off any momentum the books might have enjoyed. I had to go through my website and blogs hunting down all mentions of 'DRM-free', 'Cheap' and 'Under $5' so I could edit them out.
(I don't blame my publisher - they have 400+ titles on their list and ebooks are taking a lot of companies by surprise.)
In Australia, regular paperbacks sell for $20-$22. Publishers figured they could sell ebooks for the paperback price minus 20%, but in my opinion they're digging a hole for themselves. Especially when bookstores are going broke & closing shops.
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