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Originally Posted by Crowl
This is the way I would look at pricing rather than it having to be some fixed price.
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Yep, fixed pricing is silly. Prices need to be flexible, both on some schedule (like hardcover, then cheaper paper back, with e-book pricing to match in terms of % drop at that time etc.), as well as flexible to drop as demand drops.
Think of movies. A DVD comes out at $20-25 MSRP. A year or two later you see it for $5-$15 everywhere--and not just in store sales promotions, but because the MSRP has dropped as sales have bottomed out.
I've never understood why books and music don't see that same type of pricing. Start high, and taper down as demand dwindles. All we get with books is a cheaper paperback--but we rarely see the cover price on that paperback dropped down the road like we do with MSRP on movies.