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Originally Posted by latepaul
Cut this out and keep it folks. This is how goods are priced in a free market economy.
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Except if there is strong price competition in a market, when competitor's prices became a major factor in the price that can be achieved. There is no effective price competition in the textbook market, and little in the tradpub e-book market. Lower Indie e-book prices do not seem to be exerting a significant downward pressure on most tradpub titles, as per my previous post in this thread. Nor do I think they are likely to do so unless the market changes dramatically, as it no doubt will over time. In the meantime, I would not be surprised to see more successful Indie authors experimenting with the Big 5 practice of pricing their new releases at a premium and picking up demand at lower price points later.