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Originally Posted by Giggleton
If you are against agency pricing, which I think most of the readers here are, then you would also be against the ability of an author to raise the price of their book. Or at least against the ability of an author to charge more or less? than any price that they offered their book up to the market initially.
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I'm against agency pricing, but I fully support the author or their publisher being able to set the suggested retail price of their ebook. If they price it too high for what I'm willing to pay, I just won't buy it. The reason why I'm against agency pricing is because it doesn't give the bookseller the option to put ebooks on sale when they put the corresponding print book on sale.
As to the ability of an author to charge more or less, have you ever been to a well stocked used book store? Find a mass market paperback book that's been in print for a long time (at least 10-15 years). You'll find that the book will have been sold at several different prices. Why should that be any different for ebooks?