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Originally Posted by Graham
While Fictionwise probably could have handled this better, it's worth pointing out that BooksOnBoard did send out such an email and have been condemned for scaremongering in order to drive sales ahead of the change.
The fact is that the price increases will not be across the board, and the new model could also see some prices fall. It's all very confusing as it's been driven through by these five publishers at very short notice, probably in order to get the new pricing in place by the time the iPad launches.
Until the dust settles it's not at all clear what the outcome will be, and how the prices will really be affected.
It's also the imposition of sales tax on eBook sales in some states according to this new model that's going to have a significant effect on some stores and catalogues.
Graham
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I don't know what you're smokin' bud, but I'd like to try some-IMO you're fantasizing if you believe prices won't increase with these changes. Except, maybe, for a few token books intended mainly to support claims that they didn't increase prices across the board. Watch out for claims that they didn't increase average prices either-they'll compute 'average' as meaning what you'd pay if you bought one copy of each book in their catalog. A true average would be the total cost of all copies they sell divided by the number of copies.
IOW, if they sell 100,000 copies of a best-seller at $20 each and 100 copies of a new author's short story at $1 each, the average price is $19.98, not the $10.50 they'll try to claim it is.
Somebody mentioned that BOB hid/ghosted wishlist books that were no longer for sale-and thought that others would do likewise. Again, I'd like some of that happy-dust. I've found that since B&N bought FW they've become less interested in working out customer problems, i.e. most responses I've received have been politely worded requests that I go away.
One thing that I think *will* work out with FW is the books that can no longer be downloaded from the bookshelf. They've left those entries in the bookshelf so, assuming the books are eventually made available again you shouldn't need to re-purchase them. (Won't affect me-I not only download my books immediately, but I back them up to my computer, liberate them so I can read them on any device I own, and then back them up to offline storage. So I'm protected, but I do note that it's a lot of work for most people. Work that shouldn't be necessary but, due to DRM & the unreliability of online 'storage' sites, is.)