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Old 04-07-2011, 01:37 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
I need to express some ignorance here: what is backlist pricing? Is this the sort of pricing model that I would normally encounter in Amazon, Borders and B&N online?
"Backlist" means the older titles that a publisher owns. Think of DVDs-- you have the new and recent releases being sold for $12 - $15 or so, and then you have older (but not public domain) movies sold from a heaping bin for $5 each (or maybe 2 for $5.) With books, publishers seem to think that they can charge new release prices for the ebooks that should be in the bargain bin. IMHO, no ebook of a title more than 20 years or so old (just to pick a round number) should cost more than around 3 bucks.
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