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Originally Posted by stxopher
Guess the thinking is that since they are his best selling work they can demand any price they want if you want to sell them.)
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If that's what they're thinking its probably going to backfire big time.
Those are the books that are most easily available on p2p and are often of quiet good quality.
Charging a rip off price and expecting people to pay is not gong to work, when you can find a pirate copy Using Google. The more expensive the book, the more time a person is going to be will to spend to find a cheaper or free copy.
Baen's model works because they make the books available not only cheaply, but with minimum restrictions so it is usually much more convenient to pay the price then spend time looking for a pirate copy.
If the publisher looks like they are trying to rip you off, even people who would not normally download pirated books may be tempted, and once you get them started down that path, its going to hard to convince them to come back and buy the rest of the books, even if they are much more reasonably priced,