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Originally Posted by Atunah
Many new releases in most of the genres I read are 5.99-7.99 from publishers.
So for me back list title, older stuff being re-released, I like to be in the 2.99-3.99 range. Anything up to 3.99 I buy without thinking to much. I mean buying something I already want. I don't ever buy anything randomly without vetting.
I'll also pay up to 5.99 for a author/series I am already hooked on. Otherwise the 6.99-7.99 I only pay for new releases of handful of super great authors I been waiting on. If I can't find it at the library that is.  |
Just my opinion, but I still remember when it was only print books, and I was so glad to see an out-of-print book I couldn't get my hands on (or people were payment outrageous prices for used copies on Amazon or Abebooks). They were almost always priced at whatever the going rate for mass market paperbacks at the time.
Then when ebooks came out, and many authors self-published their backlists, many seemed to choose prices between 2.99 and 4.99, and we became used to that.
These authors who are re-releasing via publishers, however, have to split the income with that publisher, and the mainstream publishers want to keep that old mentality of pricing them the going rate for MMPB. So you have Patricia Rice backlist selling for $3 and Nora Roberts for $8 (just thinking of a couple of authors I've seen lately).