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Felony & Mayhem Press has come out with the first four titles in Patricia Moyes' Emmy & Henry Tibbett series, and hopefully will keep more coming! A little expensive at $7.99 each for an old backlist series, but this is one of my favorite series, so I may try to figure out some way to use Kobo points (couponable at Kobo...) for these books...
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Open Road Media obtained the USA eBook rights to Graham Greene’s books - three of them are available from your favorite e-tailer: The End of the Affair, The Power and the Glory, and The Quiet American (top 3 ranked on Goodreads).
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Isn't it funny how we will wait and hope for a book to come out electronically, then when it does the first thing we do is gripe about the price?
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I guess most of my griping about the price of an old series is that I almost certainly have them in DTB, so it's really hard to justify $7.99 each just to get them in e-book. And many of these books, I also probably have a PDF that I have scanned in, so even harder to justify the price just to get a nicer e-book version. So for me, I'm happy to see the e-book, but frustrated that it's not priced reasonably enough for me to get it.
And I'm not even sure it's good for the publisher... If these were priced at $2.99 or $3.99, I'd end up buying them all over time. At $1.99 each, I'd probably buy them all at once. But at $7.99, I will never buy them, so they'll get nothing from me. Maybe there are enough people who don't have in DTB, or are willing to pay that sort of price for "upgrade" to e-book, so that $7.99 on the demand curve maximizes profit for the publisher, but I just have a tough time believing it... |
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It's also frustrating when a small, decades old book is the same price as a new much larger book. (Starship Troopers, published in the 60s is under 300 pages and $9.99. So are all of the Wheel of Time books...the most recent one published in 2013 and 1025 pages. It's ridiculous that they're the same price.) |
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Ah, ah.
This thread promted me to do some search. And some books I gave up seeing re-edited are available as e-book I'll try to get in touch about the rest of the serie. |
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It's just funny that we think "Oh wow! Finally an ebook of XYZ. I never thought that would be released! $7.99? They can go to hell!" |
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I picked up The One and Future King for $1.99, thanks to the discount forums here.
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