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The list price for the hardcover of I, Alex Cross is $27.99. The price of the eBook is now $14.99. These publishers are basing the eBook price in the list price, not any sort of discounted price like you are getting from Amazon. So really, the problem here is that these eBooks cannot be discounted yet the print edition can be. So yes, we will have print versions being cheaper then the eBook. Take Sunborn for example. I have a 15% coupon for B&N. I can buy Sunborn for $7.23 (after tax) vs. $7.99 for the eBook.
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Well, if it's the publishers scrambling, then why is it that Kobo and Sony seem to be ok?
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Hm, can't answer that. Maybe the publishers are done by now and the wholesalers are still scrambling and those stores don't operate through wholesalers? I don't know about the operations of the bookstores enough to suggest a viable answer.
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The publishers are to blame, plain and simple. They're the ones who have initiated the change, it's their responsibility to get the parts in place. This kind of screw-up is a direct reflection on their competence to be setting the retail prices in the first place.
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No, two of the five publishers have pulled and will be unavailable at least until the 3rd. Cluster...
Also, I am aware (since I've been CC'ed into one's conversation for business reasons) of the extremely low degree of cooperation the publishers have been giving smaller ebook retailers. |
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Amazon has only signed HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette. Penguin and Macmillian are not available "yet", since there's no agreement. Ditto other places.
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This is rather curious. In doing some comparisons between various sites, I found that Voices of Dragons, by Carrie Vaughn, is one of the book covered by the agency pricing. However, on the Kobo site:
http://kobobooks.com/ebook/Voices-Of...ZvA/page1.html Does this mean that Kobo (and maybe Sony by implication) are "cheating" the publisher rules by having them still on their sites AND having it discounted? |
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This could really hurt ebook sales across the board. We all know the arguments for cheaper ebooks, but I just want to re-emphasize how stupid it is to charge 15 or 25 bucks for an ebook when it a couple months the regular book will be 5-10 bucks. And the ebook price doesn't change (at least it hasn't so far, they stay that full price long after a title enters paperback status).
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