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Originally Posted by charmian
DuskyRose: What you have said is very interesting. How are people on the site responding to this? Are they raising their prices for books? Or is the site membership getting smaller?
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Those who are only interested in pbooks are starting to get worried, and have voiced on the forums that they're noticing fewer books posted and traded.
The site has a set "price" for pbooks. You send a book to someone, paying the postage, and when it's received you get a credit to have someone send you any book posted at the site at no cost to you. The credits bought from the site are priced based on media mail rates, (IIRC) but buying from members is usually a lot lower. Supply and demand.
Otherwise, the site membership is still free, and books are still one credit. I think right now it will be more Wish Listed books (those not posted, so you get in line for them) will have longer waits as fewer are posted.
The complaints so far have been in slower movement on the Wish Lists and smaller selection to chose from. I'm not sure if the site will change prices for credits if the P.O. doesn't raise media mail rates.
At this point, I think that the pbooks moving to trade size is also causing concern. If the pbook isn't coming out in Mass Market Paperback size for $7, but only in Tradeback size for $12-$13 dollars, will people still be willing to swap out a Tradesize book for another Tradesize, or just pay for the ebook if it's cheaper? Or even just sell it somewhere else?
I'm not a Hardback person, nor do I like Tradesize. But It think the cheaper MMPB size is going to be phased out in a few years and that's all that will be left. That may push more people to ebooks, in that they don't like the size or the price.
So there's a lot going on right now, and people will continued to have to re-think their usual choices.