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Probably genre dependent in a way. Yes there have been more sales, yay.
But I have also noticed for new releases in romance for some publishers its a bit lower. For a while they were all 7.99. Right after the agency stuff came about. Penguin still seems to hold on to that. Sourcebooks seems to be down to 6.15 for new releases, HarperCollins to 6.99. And those where 7.99 some time back. I also see a lot of random/penguin ones coming out at 4.99. New releases again. I am looking mostly at romance/HR.
Hatchette, also seeing 6.99 for new releases.
Kensington/Zebra going via Random Penguin are going for 5.99.
And again, most of those new releases in HR used to be 7.99 after agency came in again. Its inching a bit closer to what the prices were before agency, when was that, 2011?
I did notice that the very big names in the genre can still be a buck or so higher than the rest. So Elizabeth Hoyt is 7.99 while the rest is 6.99.
Other genres like big names in urban fantasy and historical mysteries stay on the higher side.
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