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Originally Posted by bob315
Several recent threads have gotten me wondering about a slightly different ebook pricing model. Since the cost of producing and delivering one additional copy of an ebook is so low, could publishers/vendors adopt a steep volume discount and succeed?
If, e.g., a reader buys 10 books a year from a publisher at a total (retail) price of $100, would the reader be tempted by an offer of $200 for the entire year's output by that publisher? The publisher would double its revenue and the reader would have many more books to choose from. Seems to me like a win for both sides.
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It's worth noting that it costs $180 to purchase all of Baen Books' published output for a year. That's 12 Webscriptions purchases at $15 each, with a guarantee that at least 4 of the 6-to-8 books in each month will be never-before-in-bits.
The webscriptions site also sells books from other publishers along with electronic-only re-issues, so that $180 does not get you everything available at webscriptions for a year. But it does get you electronic copies of everything Baen publishes in dead tree format.
Xenophon