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Old 02-03-2010, 07:47 AM   #212
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Originally Posted by Lemurion View Post
Trying new things is a good idea, but this one is quite likely to cost the publishers their shirt.

They're still incurring most of the same costs they are currently under your model as they do under the current model, but now they're starting off by selling to a small percentage of the market (and if I follow you for a lower price) and if they do manage to sell these ebooks to paper book readers they'll sell to the "must have it now" crowd who would normally pay the higher prices..
Please define most of the same costs.. What does this mean? $50k per book by a new author? 100k? I would think that if they could avoid 40% of the possible losses on any given new author, this will result in a 66% larger new-author market. But then, I'm a cynic.
Secondly, I'm not suggesting they try it for "recognized" golden geese, I'm wondering whether it decrease the risk (that is, projected losses) per individual new author that they give a chance. (Who won't cause the "bestseller feeling/selffulfillingprophecy" (whatever that is in actuality apart from a herd phenomenon) anyway.)
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