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Originally Posted by rcentros
Not either. But it looks like some of the publishers have figured out that higher eBook prices have led to more borrowing and less buying. Maybe that collusion deal with Apple wasn't such a good idea after all.
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Or maybe it's simply there is no price that can compete with free, so the price of ebooks has no effect on library lends.
Based on the article, the Tor experiment said that ebooks sales increase when they delay releases to the library, thus windowing makes a lot of sense. It also mentioned that other publishers are going with a pricing based on the number of lends rather than a flat price, much like Amazon pays authors in their monthly ebook service. Once again, makes business sense.