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Originally Posted by Catlady
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.
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Yeah, the same thing just happened to L. Sprague de Camp's backlist.
$9.99 each for books that are 40-50 years old. Heck, when they were in print, you could get them for $3 or less sticker price. (And looking at ebay, there isn't any great demand for them these days).
I mean, if an author is still living, I don't mind paying that much. Or even their spouse. But their estate, probably some nephew they didn't even like much? Pffffft.