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Originally Posted by JDK1962
S&S should have tried an experiment: releasing the e-book of Fahrenheit 451 at $9.99, and on the same day, releasing the e-book of The Illustrated Man or Something Wicked This Way Comes at $0.99. Then at the end of a month, see which one has returned more money to them.
Maybe they'd learn something about backlist pricing. Or have some actual evidence for their current pricing policy. Because trying to price something at $9.99 when the paperback is available for $0.01 seems kinda stupid to an ignorant layman like myself. |
I've been looking for Alice Walker's The Color Purple for several months. I noticed in the recent Kindle sale it was $2.99 -- and that was the first time I'd seen it available. I snapped it up, and I have to think I'm not the only one.
It's back to $9.99 now. I hope the publisher is watching the numbers...