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Originally Posted by leebase
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.
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I remember quite a few authors being published only in paperback until their sales did well enough that their new books were published in hardcover.
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Originally Posted by leebase
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.
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I used to buy new paperbacks for 25¢ and being horrified when the price climbed to 45¢ and then continued to climb. Admittedly, that was a few years back.
Perhaps I should also say that many of those were two books in one. The old Ace doubles.
I ran into one of those Ace doubles in a used book store recently. I purchased it new for 0.45¢ (Ace M-135,
Space Captain by Murray Leinster and
The Mad Metropolis by Philip E. High) which the store now had priced at $7.65 in rather poor shape.