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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Yep. As much as some sneer at the Publisher's pricing models, it's been quite successful over the year and tends to capture the two major sets of buyers who actually buy new books (as opposed to use the library or buy used books). You have one group that wants the book as soon as it's available (thus the huge midnight buying parties for the Harry Potter books) and then the second somewhat larger group that is willing to wait a while for the book to come down in price.
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My personal experience is ARCs I've purchased from Baen just to read the book a few months early. Not quite hardcover pricing but still a bit painful. But then when I consider that once I purchased Ace doubles for about 15 minutes wages while that ARC costs me about 15 minutes wages even though book prices have far outstripped the CPI climb -- the CPI has climbed by ~720% since I purchased that Ace double making the 50 cent price for that Ace double about $3.60 in today's dollar. BTW, the Ace double I'm referring to is G-609, (
Reality Forbidden, Philip E. High and
Contraband From Otherspace, A. Bertram Chandler) which I was re-reading.