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Old 02-04-2010, 06:52 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by mcl View Post

I refuse to reward Macmillan's behavior with my hard-earned money. If that means some authors have to take day jobs, so be it.
But it doesn't have to be that way.

J.A. Konrath has shown that--he puts up ebook versions of his older, "the publisher didn't even want to be bothered" books at $1.99 (since he has his own ebook rights) and sells enough so that it is a substantial supplement to his income from new books.

At $2.99 and the new 70% royalty rate kicking in this coming June, he makes more from the $2.99 ebook sale than he does from the $24.95 hardcover from his publisher and if sales trends continue, he will make >$40K a year on ebook sales.

The authors make more money, the readers get better pricing...the publishers are irrelevant.

I've gotta say the <$3.00 purchase price is such an "impulse buy" sweet spot for me...I would buy tons of ebooks at that price.

At $9.99 for an ebook, considering that I don't actually have a physical book and the ebook is locked down with DRM, I'm really not all that interested. (Take away the DRM and $9.99, while not great, is tolerable, at least IMO.)
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