Comments on: Tobias Buckell on ebook pricing issues http://www.philipbrewer.net/2010/02/05/tobias-buckell-on-ebook-pricing-issues/ Writer: science fiction and fantasy, personal finance, and Esperanto Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:03:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: pbrewer http://www.philipbrewer.net/2010/02/05/tobias-buckell-on-ebook-pricing-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-1641 pbrewer Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:41:08 +0000 http://www.philipbrewer.net/?p=740#comment-1641 Thanks for clarifying that detail. Interested folks should go ahead and read Toby's whole post. Thanks for clarifying that detail.

Interested folks should go ahead and read Toby’s whole post.

]]> By: tobias s buckell http://www.philipbrewer.net/2010/02/05/tobias-buckell-on-ebook-pricing-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-1640 tobias s buckell Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:27:44 +0000 http://www.philipbrewer.net/?p=740#comment-1640 Philip: Amazon does lower prices when they come out in paperback, to match paperback prices. So $7.99 or so. My point is that they don't subsidize the older books, but do the new ones, thus flattening the consumer range of price for eBooks. My books are $7.99-$12.50 under this structure via Amazon. In the future, Amazon says it'll be no higher than $9.99. So then you have a scenario where my publisher would keep the backlist at $7.99 and not drop it to the $5.99 if that is true, and the latest book would be $9.99. There's a chance publishers may even just bump the backlist up to $9.99, even though that'd be (a bad idea!). Under Macmillan, a likely case would be my first two books being $5.99 ($2 cheaper than a paperback) and Sly Mongoose being somewhere between $9.99 and $14.99 (though we don't know where). Philip: Amazon does lower prices when they come out in paperback, to match paperback prices. So $7.99 or so. My point is that they don’t subsidize the older books, but do the new ones, thus flattening the consumer range of price for eBooks. My books are $7.99-$12.50 under this structure via Amazon.

In the future, Amazon says it’ll be no higher than $9.99. So then you have a scenario where my publisher would keep the backlist at $7.99 and not drop it to the $5.99 if that is true, and the latest book would be $9.99. There’s a chance publishers may even just bump the backlist up to $9.99, even though that’d be (a bad idea!).

Under Macmillan, a likely case would be my first two books being $5.99 ($2 cheaper than a paperback) and Sly Mongoose being somewhere between $9.99 and $14.99 (though we don’t know where).

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