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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Are you a gamer, perchance?
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No.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
There are entire web sites dedicated to tracking and reporting on game sales because discounting is so prevalent, from launch day on.
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Publishers could switch to the gimmicky pricing schemes you apparently prefer, and that disguise any price maintenance. I've mentioned before that complex price maintenance schemes, incorporating discounting, might be more popular with Mobileread posters. Independent books stores wouldn't like that, and I care about them a little. But I'm OK with Hachette moving to gimmick pricing, so long as it doesn't come about by one dominant retailer forcing all but a "small number of specialized titles" (Amazon's phrase) into the same pricing mold as quickly written fiction.
If $4.50, as you say, is what you pay, go indie.
How about if Amazon just lets Hachette price as it wish, and then competes against them with Amazon Publishing and Kindle Direct Publishing? If the alleged buggy whip maker dies, what's the problem, since you never liked them anyway?