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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
I wasn't saying that matching the price of the hypothetical random indie book is a good strategy, just that the presence of cheaper random indie books should exert some downward pressure on random non-indie books. Which, at least to me, doesn't really seem to be happening, at least in the agency era.
EDIT: then again, there's less desirable big5 books that are more reasonable. I doubt many people would, say, pay $15 for those, and they're generally not trying to sell them for that price.
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In general, books, movies and music are not fungible. Perhaps there are some for whom one book is as good as the next, but the entertainment industry is driven by best sellers. Even in the indie industry, the best selling authors drive the industry.