Thread: Why is backlist so expensive?
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Old 03-23-2015, 05:24 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
But you don't have a free market.

That's the point of copyright. To make a monopoly. And be able to charge monopoly prices...
A specific book is a monopoly, but if a publisher or author decides to price their book at considerably more than the norm, people won't buy it. Yes, there are some specific books that have such a limited market, that the price is astronomical compared to a run of the mill books (I've paid $100 for an ebook that had a very limited market), but for the most part, if the next book set in the Harry Potter universe at $50, it's going to be a flop. The market is all ebooks, not just one specific ebook.
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