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Originally Posted by mcl
No, Macmillan's plan involves paying more ifyou want it fist, and paying less if you wait, for some unspecified time with no reason whatsoever to believe it will coincide with any paperback availability.
In fact, given Macmillan's current gross disparity between TPB and MMB prices vs. ebook list prices for those same titles, there's little reason to believe Macmillan will reduce the price in anything other than geologic time.
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I never said anything about Macmillan's proposed time frame - only that it would work the same way as lowering prices in the same way prices now fall when a book moves from hardcover to paperback.
We can't go on their past record either (which I say as someone who generally refuses to buy Macmillan ebooks because of price), because this is supposed to be a new system. However, a higher initial price (even on Kindle) may give them the flexibility to lower prices later. We just don't know how it's going to work out yet.
As it is, Amazon's behavior has put me strongly on Macmillan's side.