Lee, it is indeed an interesting marketplace. On one side, the publishers have new tools and seem to hold all the cards. On the other side, so do the customers. I think customer expectations are the wild card - online buyers are used to immediate availability and low costs - what they are not used to is seeing something they want, and waiting a year for the price to come down. I wonder if sales will fall, or if people will remember to come back in one year and re-check the price of the over-priced ebook they had a passing interest in a year ago.
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