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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Name the industries, please, where the wholesaler dictates to the retailer the actual pricing. Not RRP, actual pricing.
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Well, I haven't noticed too much price competition on Windows upgrades. Actually, I've always wondered how MS maintained such tight control on the retail price of Windows. For that matter, look at Apple. How much competition do you see in pricing of Apple products?
In any case, I'm not arguing in favor of this model. I just don't see why it's so evil for a publisher to say, "You act as our sales agent, and we pay you a commission." It strikes me as one reasonable model, but not the only one.
They also offered Amazon the choice of continuing as is, but getting the ebooks later. Again, I'm not in favor of it, and I'd rather they didn't do it, but it's no worse than holding the paperback for some time after the hardcover.
Those outrageous profits that everyone seems to think the publishers are raking in is one of the things that makes it possible for them to publish less profitable authors like me, and to take risks on new authors.
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Depends if you mind the big spike in darknet activity for ebooks it'd cause. And for every ebook, mind, not just those directly affected (although somewhat more for the directly affected ones).
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The darknet is already sucking up books left and right. Doesn't matter if they're even
in ebook; somebody scans them and puts them up. Hell, when I was putting together my own ebooks, a darknet version someone sent me of one of my pre-computer novels was what I used as a starting point. I don't see $15 ebooks as driving that at all.