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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Unnamed? I'm pretty sure that I mentioned it was Patrica Briggs. Though it might have been in a different thread from this week. Either way, whatever. I don't see the point of continuing a conversation with someone who would rather imply I'm a liar than have an honest discussion. My bad for thinking you wanted an honest discussion.
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Hey, I'm done too, but I don't want you thinking I was implying you were a liar.
Here's the relevant part of the post in question:
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Let me give an example, these are real prices rounded to the nearest dollar, actual sales figures are made up. A name author releases a book as a hardback at $21, after a year it is released in paper at $14. 20K people buy it as a hardback bringing in $420,000. 70K people buy it at paperback price bringing in $980,000. They could have released it at the paper price and sold 90K, but then they leave $140,000 on the table that they could have made. Of course, that money gets divided between the book seller and the publisher. The author gets his or her share from the publisher's share.
Interestingly, for this author, the hardback kindle price is $15, $6 less than the hard back book price and the paperback kindle price is $9, $5 less than the paperback book price. Looking at the backlist for this author, a book published in 2006 has a paperback price ranging from $12 to $20 on Amazon depending on the seller and a kindle price of $8. So, there is enough demand for her backlisted books to keep the price up. Backlist books from other authors by the same publisher are quite a bit less, so rather obviously, the publsher is pricing based on demand, at least with backlist books. Publishers aren't nearly as idiotic as some here assume they are. If you pay attention, you see that they can experiment quite a bit with prices.
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In that post, there was no mention of any author's name. You gave specific dollar amounts for books, but no titles. So yes, all I have to go off of is your say-so.
In my replies, I tried to cite specific authors and/or specific titles. I actually was going to make each example an Amazon link, but was afraid the mods would think I was spamming the boards.
Nobody else wants to read this any further. We can just disagree. But don't think I called you a liar.