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Originally Posted by dickloraine
It would be an explanation, if it wasn't the explanation last year too. If each year there are no big bestsellers, and sales go down regardless, that can't be the explanation, don't you think?
What is the price for the audio-book? I guess it is not far from the eBook price.
And just by the way, anecdotal evidence is not real evidence. I could cherry pick any "example" I want to support any thesis.
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Well, Scalzi's data is the only real data that you are likely to see. You can call it anecdotal evidence if you like, but he has the real data, not some estimate and unlike Amazon, the book publishers and most authors, he's willing to share it. If you have real data, rather than some estimates from a newspaper article, please share it, I would love to hear it.
Audio books are typically much more expensive that the ebook. Here are a couple of books that just came out
Sword of the South by David Weber -
audiobook list - $35, member $24.46,
hardcover list - $27, prime - $17 ebook $10
Veiled by Benedict Jacka
paper - $8.00
ebook - $8.00
audiobook - $21
According to my email receipt I paid $20 for the audio version of Lock In. The ebook version was $11.
You can get the some audiobooks at a huge discount by buying the whispersync ebook first, but I rather doubt this is what happened with Lock In.