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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Under the Macmillan plan, no one has to pay more than $10 for an e-book if they don't want to. You just can't buy the e-book on the same day as the hardcover release for $10.
If you want first crack at the latest Baen release by one of their bestselling authors in e-book form, you get the E-Arc for $15. If you don't want to pay that, you wait and either buy the single for $6 or get the bundle in webscriptions.
Macmillan's plan sounds suspiciously similar. They're just stretching it over more time and being more granular with intermediate price points.
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I hope you're right, but until we see it in practice we'll never know. The Macmillan letter specified a range between $5.99 and $14.99, it did not say that all books would start at the $14.99 and eventually end up at the $5.99, in fact it was pretty lacking in detail as to how it would be implemented. Until we see it, and see over a wide range of books, we have no idea if most books will end up at $12.99 with a few token books at $5.99... only time will tell.