Thread: PW: New release sales down, ebooks to blame
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Old 08-10-2016, 11:38 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by PurpleStar View Post
End of Watch is like $17.99 A ridiculous price. Maybe that has something to do with low sales.
End of Watch at Amazon.com.

Kindle: $14.99
Hardcover: $18.00
Paperback: $10.27 (due March 28, 2017)
Mass market paperback $9.99 (due March 28, 2017)

So you have a silly price for the Kindle version and people who read on a Kindle don't usually buy hardcovers are more money. So of course sales are going to tank. Publishers are too stupid to realize that agency doesn't work. Sales are showing that agency is failing. So why not go back to real prices. I do think that End of Watch would sell better if the Kindle version was $9.99 and the hardcover $14.99. But the MMPB is also a stupid price. People are used to $7.99 to MMPB, not $9.99. The MMPB should be $7.99 and the Paperback $9.99. Then the eBook can drop to $7.99 on March 28, 2017.
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