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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
What's reasonable for one isn't reasonable for others. There's still a camp that thinks eBooks should all cost a "buck or two". Ultimately it's up to the publisher to set what they feel the price should be and up to consumers to buy it at that price or not. If enough vote not to buy then the price is likely to be adjusted downward sooner rather than later.
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Uh-huh.
There's quite a few Indie authors around, "refugees" from Harlequin and other traditional publishers, for whom the payouts from $0.99 sales or KU checkouts are quite reasonable, compared to their past experiences.
There's a lot more tradpub veterans gone Indie who appreciate the math of 70% of $2.99 > 12% of $15.99. Especially with reverted backlist that wasn't earning them nothing.
Not everybody in publishing runs in Patterson/Preston territory.
Some folks are happy to be making a few thou per book each year and racking up new readers instead of being out of print and forgotten.