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Originally Posted by leebase
That's the hundred million dollar question. I bet all the big publishers have the answer. And....apparently...it's more than you want to pay.
The price they are choosing is VERY LIKELY the price that brings them the greatest revenue. Or close to it. Or "over time for most of the books they sell".
To not believe that is to believe that these people don't know the very most fundamental thing about their business.
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Yep, some of the proof of that is watching how the semi-indie writers prices have changed over time. The more successful ones are now very close, i.e. $6-7 verses $8-9, to the big 5 prices. Of course, you do have to do apples to apples comparisons. Some authors put out a 200 page book every couple of months rather than a couple of traditional length books every year. They tend to be more in the $3-4 range. For the most part, those $1 ebooks that some seem to think is their due are reserved for PD books, porno books and first time independent authors trying to see if they can get anyone to buy their book.
Sometimes people forget that there are two halves of the supply/demand curve. You don't make money by selling below cost. Writing good books is one of those things you can't really outsource to some cheap 3rd world country were people live on a dollar a day.