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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Sorry. Maybe I misread or misunderstood your meaning. Any responses to you are specifically about ebooks. Many indies don't have paper versions at all and those that do are prohibitively expensive due to smaller scale.
When we both mentioned hardbacks, I figured we were both talking about the equivilent new release window for ebooks.
My point was I don't know of too many indies that can release a new ebook and price it at $15 for the first few months of release.
I was attempting that with my Joe Konrath/Peter Straub comparison. Both are popular authors with many fans. Yet neither is the level of Stephen King.
That is what happens with the indies, no doubt. But I do think you are ignoring the fact that traditional publishers have another factor they consider: supporting paperback sales.
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eBooks and paperbook prices are tied together in the traditional publishing world. They sell a lot more dead tree books than eBooks. So in the tradition publishing, if a book is currently out as a hard back book, then the eBook price tends to be close to that. When a book is currently out as a paper back book, then the eBook price tends to be close to that price. Indies tend to be close to the paperback price. The thing to remember is that not all traditional publisher books are first released as hardback.