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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Because it has our attention and impulse buy RIGHT then. I'm another one who often decides I can live without a certain book. Some of it is because my mood has changed. Maybe I'm reading mysteries instead of urban fantasy. Maybe I'm reading cozies by the time that next Ilona Andrews comes out. Maybe I've just decided I've timed out on those characters because I've found a series I like better at the moment.
Shrug. It does happen. It used to happen in the old days even more when I'd be waiting on a paperback and had to schlepp to the bookstore to check and see if it was out yet. By the time a year had passed, I'd very often moved on to different series or different genres. Sometimes I'd get the book for old time's sake...but a lot of the time, something else now held my attention.
That's not to say that it doesn't work out for publishers. Maybe it does. They have the right to sell books at any price, in any format they want. I don't have to cater to them and they must think it works because they keep selling that way!
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Hmmm, I must be less impulsive
. If I'm following a series then the next book comes out a year or so after the last one, 6 months here or there isn't going to bother me, so I may as well wait. I'm currently about 5 years behind on Robert Sawyer's latest but I'll get round to them eventually, I've not read Jim Butchers latest Dresden novel yet, I can wait
I tend to side with the publishers on this one, if someone has to read it now then they will pay the higher price, if not they will get it eventually (or possibly not, but the higher price paid by some will make up for it). If something is flavour of the month and is something people are not likely to go back to then they drop the price sooner to get more $$$/£££ (Girl with the dragon tattoo dropped in price pretty quickly if I recall correctly).