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Originally Posted by starrigger
Many of these pricing disparities are probably not by design, but by neglect. As I just said elsewhere, many unfortunate things happen in publishing due to neglect and inattention. My guess is, somebody forgot to make it somebody's job to keep tabs on price changes. Or the person whose job it is was overworked and didn't get to it.
The publishers really aren't very good at this yet. I think we can all agree on that.
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And i got the impression that Macmillan wanted to be serious about pricing (in the agency proposal) so this neglect would not be a part in the future.