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Originally Posted by kennyc

That Scalzi guy is deluded. He's drunk the kool-aid.

Here's some actual data from Kobo:

http://blog.kobobooks.com/2010/02/04...=Google+Reader

Interestingly enough it looks to my eye that if you took the colums from the after discount graph(pink one) that are $12 or more then you would have an amount easily about half the size of the $10 bar meaning incomes would be similar(reduced costs as fewer transactions + cost variance from $12 to $20)

Now if the publisher can sell that many books as $12 plus why would they have a start price of $10 it would make no financial sense.

Much better to sell as many as they can at more than $10 and then sell as many as they can at $10.