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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
Actually, Amazon did a brilliant thing setting the price of best-sellers are $9.99 -- even if it didn't last. With the passage of a couple of years, $10 sounds pretty reasonable and it also helps support $12+ for the "hot off the press" window.
I hope Amazon's attack at $4.99 -- where they released forty odd Ed McBain back catalog -- has a similar impact. I'd like to see a lot more 20 year old back catalogue series stuff turning up in the $5 to $7 range instead of being treated -- as Penguin treats Georges Simenon -- like its brand new stuff at $13.
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I second that emotion - I can understand trying to price your goods as high as the market will bear, but it just makes me shake my head when publishers decide to release a writer's 20 year old backlist of, what are agruably pot-boilers - entertaining, yes, but nonetheless - at new release prices.
There are pirates and then there are pirates. One type wouldn't pay for a book under any circumstances, but I think there may be a noticeable number that would be willing to pay for the convenience of a well-formatted, proofread back title, provided the cost is in the sub $5 range. Whether there are enough such hardy souls to offset the gross sales lost when reducing the price - well that I don't know.