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darryl · 03-12-2012, 07:40 AM

Thanks for the link. The critique of Turow's arguments is devastating, both in your link and in the further link to David Gaughran's post. I have read some of Scott's books and enjoyed them. It is sad to see him adopt this approach.

I suspect that Scott and other well established authors may ultimately suffer from Agency Pricing of EBooks. At least one of the fears of the large publisher's has come to pass. I suspect most readers are simply not prepared to pay a paperback price for an ebook, let alone a hard cover price. I for one am not. This leaves readers with a number of choices. Some will reluctantly pay the prices sought. Others will resort to piracy, many perhaps regretting that the author will not receive anything, but feeling no such sympathy for the agency publishers. Probably the larger group will discover indie and other non-agency pricing authors. Let's face it, the variety of ebooks on Amazon alone is staggering, the categorisation and search options make it easy to find possibilities, and the prices from $0.99 make it inexpensive to sample new books and authors to replace those who continue walking with the Dinosaurs. And for those agency authors you simply must read, there is the library, or the option of waiting until the prices do come down with time. And, as above, whilst you wait there are plenty of alternate options to choose from.

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darryl Wizard Posts: 3,108 Karma: 60231510 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura H2O, Kindle Oasis, Huwei Ascend Mate 7	Thanks for the link. The critique of Turow's arguments is devastating, both in your link and in the further link to David Gaughran's post. I have read some of Scott's books and enjoyed them. It is sad to see him adopt this approach. I suspect that Scott and other well established authors may ultimately suffer from Agency Pricing of EBooks. At least one of the fears of the large publisher's has come to pass. I suspect most readers are simply not prepared to pay a paperback price for an ebook, let alone a hard cover price. I for one am not. This leaves readers with a number of choices. Some will reluctantly pay the prices sought. Others will resort to piracy, many perhaps regretting that the author will not receive anything, but feeling no such sympathy for the agency publishers. Probably the larger group will discover indie and other non-agency pricing authors. Let's face it, the variety of ebooks on Amazon alone is staggering, the categorisation and search options make it easy to find possibilities, and the prices from $0.99 make it inexpensive to sample new books and authors to replace those who continue walking with the Dinosaurs. And for those agency authors you simply must read, there is the library, or the option of waiting until the prices do come down with time. And, as above, whilst you wait there are plenty of alternate options to choose from.