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Originally Posted by delphidb96
Ummm... Have you seen the sheer number of NEW titles released this last week? Most of which are being released as $6.99-$7.99-$8.99 dead-tree paperbacks? Now tell me again that a $14.99 e-book price point is 'eminently reasonable'. Please, do!
And yes, I sometimes get so much of an itch for an upcoming title that I reach out to Baen and buy their 'barely-edited' E-ARC version for $15! (Far more than many may be willing to believe.  )
Derek |
I think Harry's point is that $14.99 is an eminently reasonable price for the ebook of a new-release hardcover: not a mass market paperback.
Let me quote from John Sargent's first official statement on the matter (emphasis mine).
"At first release,
concurrent with a hardcover, most titles will be priced between $14.99 and $12.99. E books will almost always appear day on date with the physical edition."
Macmillan is not saying that the ebook releases of new release paperbacks will be $14.99; they aren't even saying that the ebooks of all new release hardcovers will be $14.99.
So it's completely premature to castigate Macmillan because their new plan will price the ebook editions of new release paperbacks at $15, or even all new releases at $15, when that's not what they are on record of saying.