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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm afraid I disagree with you. It makes excellent sense to introduce a book at a relatively high price, and then to discount it as time passes. It's what Baen have done very successfully - offering people a chance to buy a book early for $15, and then re-release it for $6 a few months later. I don't see too many people moaning at Baen for this.
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That's because Baen actually lowers the price. We can go find plenty of McMillan eBooks that are more expensive then the current cheapest paper copies. So really, we have little to no faith that the publishers will actually lower the prices at the same time the paperback comes out. Plus, I do expect a trade paperback first just so they don't have to lower prices that much. And then maybe a mass market paperback will come out. So really, the time it will take to go from hardcover to mass market could be years if ever.