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Originally Posted by vaughnmr
To those authors in this forum who want to support Macmillon and friends, I hope you are in for a ride. I will never support $15 pricing for ebooks, period. I strongly suspect there are a LOT of people who think just like me. You should be trying to work the economic model of "large quantities" not "large prices".
At the beginning of what I see as the current ebook revolution, you are trying to screw your customers, and you ought to think about that one very carefully. You are increasing the cost of bestseller ebooks 50% without any benefits to the customer, no easing of the content sharing with DRM, no changes to the geo location restrictions, no changes to the often terrible format quality. Exactly what are you giving me for the increase in pricing? As a customer, I will pay you in kind for what you deliver.
Michael Vaughn (new to ereading 10/1/09)
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No one is saying that all ebooks will suddenly become $15 at the end of March.
What Macmillan and other publishers want to do is introduce the same kind of dynamic pricing that already exists with paper books. Books cost more when first released, and then the price will drop over time.
It may or may not work.