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Old 03-09-2010, 05:00 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc View Post
As publishers begin to enter the "agency model" of pricing - they apparently are testing the pricing waters to see what consumers will tolerate -- esp. for long-standing popular series with an established reader base.
That's it imo. They are testing the water to see what we will pay, how raising the price in this fashion affects sales, how much DRM we are willing to tolerate.

I think they want to see if we are willing to 'lease' books for $15. We never really own them because of the DRM (DRM server goes down, book disappears) and we can't re-sell them like we would a paper book. That's a win-win for the publishers.
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