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Originally Posted by ficbot
I just worry that the publishers will interpret the lack of ebook sales under the new scheme to mean 'people are not interested in ebooks, period' rather than as 'our scheme to raise prices has back-fired and very interested customers are waiting for the paperback price by which point they may have borrowed from the library or a friend and it will be too late.'
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The 'back-firings' will eventually just be firings of senior execs. It's just too bloody obvious that electronic distribution is here to stay and that Amazon's creation of the e-book category with the Kindle is a GIFT to publishers and not a threat. I will stand in line to pay for lots of classic fiction -- back catalogue stuff which has traditionally been the bread and butter of the industry -- but it's either not available or priced out of sight.
Release Agathe Christie, Rex Stout, Earl Stanley Gardner and John McDonald at $3.95, $4.95, $5.95 in classy e-books and I'm there. Bring out Grisham's at $11.95 ... not so much. There is an enormous amount of money being left on the table in the belief that e-books are consumed by techie early adopters which change their Smartphones every three months rather than people who actually are interested in the content. And they call themselves publishers.
