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Originally Posted by whitearrow
I know, I know, everyone is tired of this topic, and I'm largely preaching to the choir, but I just needed to get this off my chest.
Have a look at this book. It's a TV tie in novel (for a very niche show) of about 300 MMP pages. It came out in 1997. The show has been off the air since 1998. It's a niche product for a niche market. I checked out a sample -- they actually did a nice job converting and formatting the Kindle edition.
When the book came out, the mmp price (these books were only released in mmp) was $6.99. (ETA: Actually they were $5.99. Found the back cover of another book in the series.) You can buy a new copy now through the Az marketplace for $7.58 shipped.
Hachette Book Group's list price for the Kindle edition? $17.99, ever so magnanimously reduced to $9.99. For a 15 year old backlist title in a niche of a niche. All of the available Highlander ebooks are priced the same, which is demonstrably out of touch with the going prices for TV-tie in ebooks. ( Stargate: Atlantis - $4.99, Stargate SG-1, $6.36, Star Trek, $1.99 to $7.99 for the most part, Supernatural, $6.39, Charmed, $5.99, CSI, mostly $7.99, Spartacus, $6.39.
If these books were $4.99 or less for Kindle, I would buy at least a few of them, so I can replace the old mmp's I've been hanging on to. At $9.99 each, my reaction is entirely different, a number "colorful metaphors" as Captain Kirk might say. I'm sure I'm not the only fan of this series who feels this way, and once again, Big Publishing's insane ideas about pricing are getting in the way of it making actual, you know, profits. |
Yes, as we know, Hachette is Australian for ripoff.