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Old 06-30-2011, 08:51 AM   #196
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Sure you can. The costs of selling an eBook are extremely low. If you are competing with used book sales then you are not cannibalising your own new sales, so every sale is extra revenue you would not have had otherwise. Used sales give you no money. Any money is more than no money.
For older book at least I assume the publisher have contracts with the author regulating these things. I do not believe the publisher can give the book away for free for example.
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Old 06-30-2011, 08:56 AM   #197
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For an old book were new customers will not be so many the optimal price point is probably a higher price. What is hard to understand in that? People buying an old book will buy it because they want to read just that book and can therefore pay more. If they just wanted to read a good book it is more rational to buy a new book.
That might make sense if you were the only source of all books in the world, and your customer base was forever fixed. With that attitude you will never attract any new customers who currently use the library or buy from second hand books shops. The point is that they could choose to win secondhand business, but choose not to.
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That might make sense if you were the only source of all books in the world, and your customer base was forever fixed. With that attitude you will never attract any new customers who currently use the library or buy from second hand books shops. The point is that they could choose to win secondhand business, but choose not to.
And then they sulk and stamp their feet when the customers they don't want turn to other sources for their cheap ebooks.
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And then they sulk and stamp their feet when the customers they don't want turn to other sources for their cheap ebooks.
Here at MR it is the customers that sulk and stamp there feet...
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Here at MR it is the customers that sulk and stamp there feet...
You must have forgotten what happened a year ago on April 1...
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