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Originally Posted by JoeD
To be fair, they don't really need to say it. If prices go up, I will stop buying the ebooks with those prices. I'll pay up to $5-6 for a book currently that I fancy reading and at most $9.99 if it's an author I know and love to read.
If all the publishers follow suit, then that'll put an end to my days reading best sellers.
I hope more authors start to sell directly from their websites at reasonable prices and through non exclusive deals with as many online retailers as they can get their hands on. Those are the authors who will be getting my money in the future if ebook pricing isn't sorted out (in fact they're the authors getting my money right now, as most existing ebook prices are outside what I'm willing to pay).
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Maybe that is the ideal answer. Buy from the author directly, electronically!
Publishers publish, print, distribute, promote, manage and "handle" the writers, pay advances and deal with all of the eccentricities of the popular authors. They are due something for their work. But they want more than their fair share with electronic publishing. Look at the dramatic reduction in the cost structure with electronic publishing. No printing/binding (huge cost), no distribution and shipping of heavy products (huge savings). No returns, no stock balancing and the rest of the distribution headaches.
Now Macmillan wants a premium price and they get to off-load all of the heavy costs of publishing. They are going to make more money from the electronic versions. I guess they want the eBook buyers to subsidize their expensive publishing for brick and mortar distribution.
I think it just sucks.