Thread: Samhain Publishing is winding down and will close
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Old 02-17-2017, 05:43 PM   #309
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks View Post
Probably. Although I think as the last two years have aged, the prices are definitely creeping up. Others have given me the impression I was just not looking at the right books. For books I read, I noticed that David Coe's third in the series (Baen author) is priced at 9.99 and most of Baen's books were 6.99 and 7.99 for a long time. I tend to wait for a Kobo coupon and buy any Baen books from Kobo so I'm generally not paying market price. I do that with a lot of indie reads as well. Five years ago I know I bought a Patricia Briggs book and a Tuttle book (by a publisher other than Samhain--his All the Paths series) that were 9.99 or more. That is the last time I've spent more than 7.99 on a book Tuttle is now independent with both series so his books have all been under 5. I no longer buy Brigg's books; they are library fare for me. Ilona Andrews is both library or buy depending on the price. Rachel Aaron used to put her books on Kobo (the self-pubbed ones) and I'd buy them there with a coupon. She no longer does that as she blogged something about the bulk of her sales are on Amazon so she publishes there now. I think she may have tried some experiment with letting Kobo have it for a couple of weeks and then going exclusive Amazon, but I am not sure because if it happened, I missed the window.

It will be interesting to see if the price creep continues and holds. I know I am blogging fewer and fewer titles over 5 dollars because they simply aren't selling.
Baen's pricing scheme is based on what the cheapest paper copy available is. If the book is hard cover only it's 9.99 if it's trade paperback it's 8.99 and if it's mass market paperback it's 6.99.

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As of December 16th, 2012, Baen ebooks are now available for sale at other vendors as well as at this site. At the same time, prices for our individual ebooks were raised to meet the rest of the market. Titles available in print as hardcovers only will be $9.99, trade paperbacks $8.99, and mass market paperbacks $6.99. As part of the adjustment, we have also raised ebook royalties to authors by 25%.
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