Thread: The Virtue of High Priced Books
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Old 05-10-2011, 11:13 AM   #62
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
No one would have the incentive to create ebooks of backlist works if they could only sell them for $.25 each. By all means, go ahead and buy that used paperback book at the garage sale for $.25. No one need buy the ebook unless they DESIRE to at the price sufficient to encourage it's creation.
$3 would be the average price of a second hand paperback bought mail order, which would be the only way of getting something you actually wanted rather than choosing from what is available for 0.25 at a jumble sale.

If the cost of creation is the only barrier to pricing them at second hand paperback levels, why don't they just download a pirate version that has been created by a fan for nothing and sell that? It seems to work well enough for the people who sell PD books on Amazon. Sherlock Holmes is one of their best selling Kindle titles, so the availability of free copies obviously has no influence on sales.
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