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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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Sounds to me like we agree that indie books are (in general) cheaper than traditional books. That ebooks published by traditional publishers cost more because the price is set to match their paperbooks.
So it seems like it would be obvious to say:
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Ah yes, the assertion that if only publishers knew how to price books, they could be selling X times what they are selling.
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Yes, they probably could, if the publisher's goal was to sell as many ebooks as they could, rather than constricting ebooks sales to protect paper books.
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The fact that the indies price point for authors who write on the same basic writing schedule have drifted up to the publishers price point ...
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I just haven't seen that. There might be rare examples, but it doesn't appear to be the norm.