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Originally Posted by darryl
[..] Most Indie authors seem to set a price and leave the book at that price. Some do of course experiment, as they should. But from what I can see most Indie authors do not consistently adopt the practice of charging more for a book when it is first released. Yet there is a market at a higher price, at least for the better known Indie authors. Pre-release Baen does very well selling e-arcs at significantly higher prices to those who simply can't wait. The Big 5 have always been very good at extracting premium prices for their new releases. They seem to be bringing this model to their e-books, only competing with Indies once the premium has been extracted from those prepared to pay it.
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As you say, established independent authors may be able to put a premium price on new releases, but most new or lesser known generally go the other way (whether for better or worse can be really hard to say).
One thing I have observed lately (to the detriment of my wallet) is that even the big publishers (or is it the book sellers themselves?) are sometimes putting the most recent book on special on or before a brand new release. For example Robert Goddard recently released
One False Move, well the 2018 released
Panic Room was on sale at Kobo Aust until just a day or two ago. I've seen similar situations with a number of authors recently.