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My pricing complaint has to do with the long tail of eBook publishing. I'm willing to pay top dollar for a new book from an author I like, but it takes a really long time for the price to drop. I was looking at Amazon for some older fantasy/sci-fi books (20-30 years since original publication, in some cases), and the publisher was still asking $5-8 for the eBook. I think that publishers need to start looking at the model that Steam pioneered for video games, where older items are extremely deeply discounted during occasional sales. I have read several stories that suggest they more than make up in volume what they lose in per-item price. There's a ton of stuff I would likely pick up if it was in the "impulse buy" range of a buck a title.
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