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Originally Posted by ficbot
Just curious, in light of the new price-gouging agency model (decade-old paperback $1 cheaper than print! They're all heart) if anyone has bought any books yet under the new pricing and what your thoughts are on how high they can take you for. I have still been adding books to my wishlist (mostly at Kobo since Fictionwise doesn't have anything good anymore) and some books I would have impulse-bought in the past (e.g. books to replace a paper version taking up shelf space in my tiny home) I am wishlisting and not buying. With the exception of maybe 1 author where I really would be willing to pay to have it right away, I just can't see myself paying more than $12 for an ebook---$10 is my limit but Canadian books seem to be $2 higher so I have bumped it a little. But more than that, I'll wishlist it and wait.
So, do you have a ceiling? What is it?
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I can understand the need for a $12 limit to handle Canadian pricing, but I find it interesting that 67.5% choose $10 or less. And even though the 'bump' to $12 'only' adds 2.5%, that still shows 7 out of 10 people would consider the current higher-price policies of the 'big five' publishers to be way out of line. Of course, the average upper-management type at these mega-publishing-houses cannot read, cannot think beyond his/her next feeding and cannot imagine a world where customers are even *close* to being right. So we'll have to either cave in or do what comes naturally. (In the latter, that means swarming to the darknet to assuage our addiction.)
So be it. Dinosaurs sometimes need to be hunted to extinction as they're too stupid to simply give up and die on schedule.
Derek