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I'll change my opinion as and when the situation changes, sure. Right now...
(The publishers have had MONTHS to make sure this goes smoothly. Any mis-steps can be laid squarely at their door) |
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All the ebooks from these publishers have been pulled from sale over the last couple of days while they get the new pricing structure in place. Retailers are also scrambling madly to renegotiate their contracts with these publishers. Until all the new prices are in place it's unclear what the final effect on the various stores and their prices is going to be. Graham |
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Chlorine - Ah, okay :P
The "previous" model is the "retail model". The retailers pay a percentage (50-55%, usually) of the publisher's cover price of the ebook. How they then price the book is entirely up to the retailer. They can run discounts, rebates, membership clubs etc. The "agency model" works differently. The publisher sets the price. This may not be varied, period. The retailer gets 30% of this set price when they sell the book. Also, a lot of retailers are putting in clauses that require no other retailer gets a better deal, thus enforcing identical pricing. This is supposedly "necessary" because Amazon were choosing to sell a minority of books - mostly high profile best-sellers - as loss-leaders (losing money on every sale) at $9.99 to draw in customers. Last edited by DawnFalcon; 04-02-2010 at 12:42 PM. |
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Thanks for the explanation, Graham, DawnFalcon.
So fixed price means no more fictionwise sales for these books I guess. OTOH I could already not benefit of most sales because geographical restrictions prevented me from paying with credit card. I do hope the books come back though, I _want_ to read my book! Ironically, this book in paperback seems to be currently discounted at amazon :/ http://www.amazon.com/Circle-Casting...0316991&sr=8-3 (I think I'll end up buying it in paper if it's not back on sale as an ebook on monday or something). |
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