Re: Prices of ebooks (was piracy thread)

A price spread is a healthy thing, so long as the copyright holders are the ones making the decisions. Looking through the prices in different places from 99c upwards it is clear there are many differnt views about the reasoning behind a price.

I think too many, though, are being stampeded by Amazon's attempt to make us dance to their tune.

Joseph

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From: "Joan De la Haye" 
>>$5 ebooks are very much on the table. Lots and lots of ebooks at that  
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> price point, and even lower, are around.<
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> My ebook novel (Shadows) is also priced at the $5 mark on Amazon.
> There are loads of novels that are selling at very low prices.
> JA Konrath is selling some of his ebook novels as low as $2.
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> Joan De La Haye
> Author of Shadows
> http://joandelahaye.wordpress.com/
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> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:47:11 -0500
> Subject: [ebook-community] piracy thread
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>> The recent Amazon/Macmillan kerfuffle is about the difference between
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>> $10 ebooks and $15 ebooks; $5 ebooks aren't on the table. Convince
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>> mainstream publishers that ebooks should compete with/supplement the
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>> paperback niche rather than hardcovers, and the whole shape of the
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>> discussion will change.
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> $5 ebooks are very much on the table. Lots and lots of ebooks at that  
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> (Hey, even my own recent release, The Profitable Publisher, is priced  
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> at $4.99 on the Kindle and elsewhere. Of course, it's a little less  
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> than 50 page-equivalents long, but it's also emphatically not mass- 
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> market!)
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