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Originally Posted by ficbot
I guess my problem is, I don't trust MacMillan to actually lower it later, since they have not ever done that yet. There are ebooks on sale at Fictionwise for $17 which have been in mass market paperback for over a decade. So they say 'we will lower it over time, sure' and it seems like they won't. As Dr. Phil would say, the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour  |
I do not think it is a good predictor in this case. There will be people watching and companies watching them. My take is that this new scheme finally shows that they will take ebooks seriously and that will lead to better quality of the ebooks and a working pricing scheme.