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If the books are not infected with DRM, and are available in multiple formats, a price of $5.99 is much closer to being fair, in my opinion. $5.99 is still a bit on the high side though, and really should be the maximum for new releases. Just my $.02 cents.
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Well I am not sure why anyone would think that John Sargent isn't going to have his ebooks without DRM. He has made a lot of statements about piracy and how it should be combated. He is pro DRM and he is very RIAA'ish about it.
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Evolve or die is a pretty good mantra, be it for a culture, belief system, or procedure.
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Just looking at backlist Sue Grafton books, the in-print paperbacks are $7.99, the ebooks are $14 for most of them, some are $7.99, and Fictionwise has two for $25 and $30 respectively. I don't know if this is Fictionwise's fault, because at least one of them is $14 elsewhere. Still, I don't believe a word MacMillan's CEO says in this matter, since it's clear that their ebook pricing often is more expensive than mass market paperback. I don't believe they ever would have announced this if Amazon hadn't put the screws to them over the weekend.
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To put a positive slant on this, I think that smaller publishing houses, ones that release new ebooks regularly and are primarily webbased will take advatange of Macmillans higher prices. They will offer books at a lower rate and I think that when confronted with purchasing a $14.99 book or a $5.00 one for a smaller publishing house, many readers will at least give the smaller publishing house a try in hopes that they will have decent stuff at a lower rate!
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Big publisher release a book from a big author at $20 and eventually lowers price to $9 and then $6 etc Small publisher releases straight away at $6. End result neing the small publishers are still small publishers. the market shows us that people will pay $15 for a new book by a big author. BoB and fictionwise do those prices NOW and are still in business. |
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Yes, and it's this "prices set by the publisher" behavior that we're about to see on Amazon, thanks to their capitulation to Macmillan's agency model. |
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Fictionwise and Mobipocket currently do exactly that, Apple will be following suit in March when their store goes live, and Amazon will be soon. If you want to know what Apple and Amazon's prices will look like in a month, look at what Fictionwise/Mobipocket's prices are today, since those are the prices Macmillan has set. |
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Macmillan has said that the typical price of new releases will be no more than $14.99. This is much less than the current list price of most such ebooks from Macmillan. There are many posters here who are deeply sceptical, with reason, of Macmillan but the $14.99 maximum seems to be a concession to Apple for opening the iBookstore.
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Also of note: Macmillan has given no timeline for the reduction in ebook price over time. However, current Macmillan pricing behavior is to keep ebook prices ridiculously high even for books that have been in MMB for a decade. If Macmillan were on the Titanic, they'd cling desperately to it rather than move to a lifeboat, because they don't like change. |
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The difference is that small publishers can been seen easier in an online bookstore. They don't have to fight for distribution or shelf space. If you look at Fictionwises top sellers there are a number of books by smaller publishers on it. I would think that this number is considerably higher than the average bricks and mortar bookstore. Amy |
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