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Originally Posted by tompe
I would think that being continuously in print indicates new customers that pay the new book price so it seems rational to me to match the price to the paper edition. I do not believe that the market for replacing paper books are big at all.
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Yes, they'll sell to new customers at $9.99--new customers who are willing to buy a 40- to 50-year-old rather dated and quaint genre book which is competing with every other current and backlist book for the consumer's dollar. But how many potential customers are like me--read the book years ago, would happily buy a digital version at a reasonable price, just to have it, but would not be willing to pay $10.
I said I'd happily pay $5. I'd probably pay even $7.50, though less happily. I won't pay $10. Victoria Holt wrote more than 30 books under that name. If they're all published in e-book form, that's over $300 I won't be spending.