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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
$50 x 500 copies = $25,000, of which the writer will only get 25%. They won't get anything from the $100+ prices readers will need to pay on Ebay/Amazon because all the preorders went to dealers.
An ebook and/or mass market edition alongside the speculator edition would keep everyone happy. The only reason I can think of not to do that would be to force people who can't really afford it to buy the speculator edition. Not the best way to treat your fans, if you ask me. And certainly not the best way to minimise piracy.
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And the author payment percentages are usually higher on limited editions... just making up figures doesn't prove anything... and stop calling them speculator editions, few of the entire run end up on eBay, the majority end up with the people they're aimed at - COLLECTORS - but of course you are another of the, "if I don't want it/won't pay the asking price for it" brigade that seems to think that those who do want it shouldn't have their requirements met before yours as your needs are greater... most art forms have put out limited editions before doing mass-market versions because there is a demand for them...