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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Darknets or no, I think they miss out on the impulse buyer. Or the buyer who thinks they are waiting and then forgets about the book entirely (that would be me quite often.)
There are opportunities with ebooks that didn't exist with hard copy books, but many publishers aren't taking advantage of them. It's their ballgame, but I would think attracting the impulse buyer at a good price would more than make up for bothering with a delay.
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I thought that they were going after the people who couldn't wait. Like me, for example, who read "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", then bought the next one, then looked at the third one and, in the end, paid the hardback price because I didn't want to wait (and I wasn't persuaded that they'd drop the price on April 1 when the £3.99 paperback comes out). So I paid ~£10.