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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
That'd work wonderfully.
Do you really think a bookstore could get the Agency 6 to go along with charging only $5 for backlist ebooks, even in a subscription format? They freaked out over $10 ebooks. Their current idea of backlist midlist prices is $10 for the first of a series first published in 1986, where most of the series isn't (legitimately) available digitally at all. $8 for one outside of a series, originally from '92.
As far as I know, the only big publishers willing to sell most of their ebooks at $5 or less are romance publishers.
$20/month for 4-5 books from a reasonably genre-focused pool of books would be great; ebook readers would jump on it. But the publishers show no signs of being willing to accept less than full mm paperback face price for ebooks. |
Shatzkin did say agency pricing would be a problem
. Ah well, I think the publishers could be persuaded to go along if it was shown that there was a demand out there for this kind of model . I hope to see some kind of experiment along this line soon.