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Originally Posted by Barty
I think the publishers should be free to price books however they please, set the same price for all sellers if they want, and see what happens with their sales. It's not like they have virtual monopoly like the cable companies.
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I think the publishers should be able to set any WHOLESALE price they want for the ebook. Any price at all, even if it is so ridiculously high no one would buy it like $100 for a harlequin novella. But they should have no say at all in what the retailler sells it for as long as they receive the full wholesale price. Let the retailer give the book away as long as the publisher gets it's money if that is what the retailer wants. If the retailler wants to pay the publisher $100 for every book they give away the publishers should be delighted. If they want to stop this, for some weird reason, they could always raise the wholesale price to $200 and get twice as much, or $400 or $1000. Whatever. Eventually the retaillers couldn't afford to give away any more.