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Originally Posted by pwalker8
And how many of those $2 and $3 ebook sales are traditional publishers and how many are either indie or mid-tier authors selling their own books? I can't really say that I've seen very many (i.e. I don't recall seeing any) ebooks at that price that were not indie or backlist. I have seen first in a series sales like that (or for free) but usually that first in the series tends to be 10 or 20 years old (i.e. backlist)
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While a fair number of such books are from smaller publishing houses, a casual look at my orders from the last six months shows that I have purchased sales books from such publishers as Penguin (
Behave by Sapolsky,
S is for Silence), Random House (
The Cave and the Light by Herman, plus a couple of other history books), Simon & Shuster (Star Trek books, their newsletter frequently advertises sale normally of contemporary novels), HarperCollins (Agatha Christie books and
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia), and Bloomsbury (
At the Edge of the World by Blanchard &
Half Moon) plus, as you might expect, a number of backlist books from Open Media. And this does not include books published under a imprint belonging to a larger publishing house.
It's true that most of these books are not newly published but they are not consistently over a decade old either and a very few, such as
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson were actually put on sale shortly after publication (Release date was mid-march, I bought the book for $1.99 Can in June).