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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I suspect that has more to do with the author being dead, rights and publisher interest.
Those westerns I was talking about are long out of print and rights are owned by the author. They run for about two bucks or so, but there's plenty of e-books that go for more. Arthur C. Clarke and Thomas Tryon for instance both have e-books that run about the same price as a paperback. So I doubt low e-book prices are keeping Frank Yerby off the digital shelves.
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I wasn't blaming low prices for those ebooks not being available, exactly. I was thinking that if prices were very high that would get publishers busy digging up every old book they can find since they'd only have to sell a few to make money, especially with long tail considerations.
I'm sure there are a lot of reasons books aren't available as ebooks but probably lack of interest is one of the important reasons. Make them valuable and there'll be more interest, as was the case with the early CD's when music publishers were publishing anything they could find whether they expected it to sell a lot or not, because they all made money.
My personal situation doesn't allow me to pay a lot for books but I have a lot of books already so that isn't a problem for me. And I also wait for sales to look for new books. I'll rarely pay more than $2 or $3 for a book except in those cases where it's something I especially want and I don't want to wait. Even then I'm not likely to pay $15 for one. I've only done that a couple of times. I'd rather wait and I have plenty to read while I'm waiting.
Still, there are books that aren't available and I'd like to read them.
Barry