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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The thing is with out of print pBooks is that if they were put out as eBooks, then any sale would result in profit where there would have been none since there is no pBook to be purchased. So I do think a price of $4.00 for an out-of-print book would be fine.
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Depends on the costs of getting it into ebook form and offering it, and the perceived potential sales.
For current titles, where (we hope) the masters for the print and ebook editions are prepared at the same time and archived, an ebook sale of a backlist title that is OOP in paper is gravy, because the ecopy exists. In other cases, it's not so simple.
And ebooks and print-on-demand are forcing redefinition of what is meant by "out of print". When a book is OOP, the writer can ask that the rights be reverted. With ebooks and POD, that became very murky. Current contracts are tending to stipulate some combination of OOP in paper plus X low level of POD/ebook sales as an indicator that the publisher has lost interest and rights should revert.
So bottom line, the publisher may not necessarily have the rights to that OOP title any longer.
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Dennis