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Originally Posted by murraypaul
The average selling price for Big-5 eBooks is the same as for others?
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If you do an apples to apples comparison, yes, it's pretty close, at least among the authors that I read.
There appears to be a misapprehension that under the agency model, all Big-5 ebooks are priced the same. They aren't. Books can vary in price quite a bit depending on how they are selling. One sees that among indie books as well. You do have to be careful to make sure it's an apple and apple comparison and that you aren't trying to compare the price of some 200 page novella for an author who churns out a book every month with the price of a regularly sized book from an author who puts out one or two books a year.
Of course, indies set their own prices as well, there just isn't the outrage over it that there is when the big-5 does it. Apple allows app developers to set their own prices as well, once again to a lack of outrage. Amazon's ebook store model is actually a lot closer to a flea market model than it is to a regular store.