Quote:
Dear A K,
Thank you for your interest in Penguin's e-book publishing plans. This is of course new territory for us and so we are very interested in the response of our readers. Our pricing decision is one we have adopted globally for the time being. We see the e-book as simply a new way for readers to access the work of our authors and so the price will be the same as the print price of the edition currently available. So, if a book is in hardback priced at £18.99 that will be the e-book price and once that book goes into paperback at, say £8.99, the e-book price will be dropped accordingly.
If you have any further questions with regard to Penguin's e-book publishing plans, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Best regards
Penguin Online
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(the bold is mine).
I'm pleased to see that they claim to be very interested in the response of their readers, and also that they mention they have adopted this pricing decision
for the time being. Perhaps this means we can convince them to modify it. i also notice they make no distinction between the *content* (the text) and the *container* (hardcover, paperback, ebook...) (
"We see the e-book as simply a new way for readers to access the work of our authors"), as we were discussing on a different thread here. perhaps we should mention that to them.
in any case, the key point to retain is that apparently they listen to their readers so
YOU ALL SHOULD WRITE TO THEM ALSO (the sooner the better) if you want to see some reasonably priced ebooks from penguin.
[EDIT : i see they are sending the same reply to everyone, apparently. however, this probably still means that *someone* at Penguin is reading our mails, and should not discourage us from continuing to write.]