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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
That's true - but I don't think that we've seen this play itself out yet. Once technology reaches a point where electronic reading is seen by the majority as practical, which is a point that it seems we are fast approaching, there will be a surge in demand for content. The providers who make it convenient and cheap to get good quality content will win out.
I'm hoping that if I say it lots of times, it'll happen  |
Yeah right. Not.
I just popped over to eReader.com and Fictionwise to see what this week's offerings would yield. Guess what? Lots of the new fiction releases are priced between $11.99 and $16.99! Didn't take the 'big 3' long to fix prices.
Now when it's a new Stephen King, while I don't *like* a higher price, he's such a big draw that it makes sense that a publisher would jack the price up for a while.
However, Virginia DeBerry has a new novel released this week. Never heard of her? Not a problem. eReader has all three of her novels available. The new one runs $14.99 - the older two have been jacked up to $14.00!
I'm feeling the urge to darknet, I swear I am!
Derek
P.S. What *really* makes no sense is the number of new Young Adult titles that have been put through the Price-Jack-O-Matic machine!