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Originally Posted by murraypaul
The only model that makes any sense is for the author to set the wholesale price they want to get from a retailer, and let the retails and readers negotiate over what retail price they are willing to pay. Authors are not retail experts, and why should they care what the final retail price is, as long as they get paid the same either way?
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Fine, the author can hire someone to set the price on the book. That's pretty much the same thing. If the reader thinks the price for that book is acceptable, they will buy the book. If not, they won't. If the author or the author's representatives overprice the book, they are free to reduce it if they wish. The point is that it is a bad idea to have a third party meddling inbetween the author/publisher/seller and the reader. The author, publisher and seller determine price, the reader determines value.