Hmm... I am just about to finish up with all but the current "Song of Ice and Fire"
novels, so I will be faced with buying the new one "A Dance With Dragons".
http://inkmesh.com/search/?qs=A+Danc....+Martin&ct=eb
As you can see the current Agency pricing is at $14.99 and the earlier titles in the series
are at $9. Now I could wait until this new one joins the price of the others or spend the
extra $5 to get it now. Totally my choice. It might not be that long either, the latest
Dresden novel "Ghost Story" is at $13 already. Even so, I doubt that I will wait more
than a couple of minutes after I have finished this one. Then it will be a matter of less
than ten minutes to have the new book purchased, downloaded, disinfected, placed in
its proper folder of my library, and have my SD card updated to include the book.
Now that the publishing houses are setting the retail price for their ebooks, they will be
trying to price their products to be competitive on the retail level. They will be looking
at the same factors (as far as pricing is concerned) that the were there for all the
ebooksellers in the past. The main thing being the interest their product might have for
the book buying public.
As odd as this may sound in this forum; "People don't HAVE TO buy novels!", they can
survive without them. (Quality of life issues aside.)
There is no pricing that would get me to buy a book with the "I Can't Believe It's Not
Butter" guy on the cover.
There are way too many new authors and older releases of established authors that I
need never pay the new release price for a book that I don't have every reason to
believe will be what I want to read.
One result of this is that there are only a few new releases that I would have any
interest in, to start with. Most of what is being peddled I have no interest in anyway.
Now there are plenty of old products that match my interests, but it is not easy to find
the ones I am willing to pay very much for, (this is were the quality of scanned books
comes in). Still, this pool of earlier works offers plenty of lower cost ebooks, more than
enough to tide me over between the release of the few current releases that will interest
me.
Luck;
Ken