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Originally Posted by BuddyBoy
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.
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Unfortunately, it's a lot more expensive to produce a nice ebook edition of a 20-year-old book than a new one, because no electronic source will exist for the old book. It has to be OCR'd and proof-read, a time-consuming and expensive process.