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Originally Posted by rcentros
It doesn't affect me. I'll get on the waiting list or I won't read the book. If not for agent pricing (if there was competition), I might actually buy the book, like I used to. "Brilliant" collusion maneuvering by the big publishers is losing them sales. Greed short circuits the brain.
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I’m sure the publishers have excellent data with regard to pricing and sales. Before ebooks, only the hard backs came out first. These were priced $25-$30. No one complained that the paperbacks were not immediately available.
New release ebooks are $14.99 by most of the big publishers. I may not be the worlds greatest mathematician, but I believe that’s less than what used to be the going rate for new release books.
What we’ve lost are book sellers promotional sales. We can thank Amazon for that due to their profit destroying $9.99 predatory pricing of new release best sellers.
So now it’s the publishers who set the prices preventing one of their book sellers from running all the others out of business.