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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
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 Posted - 26 Mar 2014 : 15:18:29
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The difference has led me to not purchase a few of the Sundering novels...
I pre-ordered The Herald for $8, paid Just over $7 for Godborn and The Companions in the same. Now the other three are priced at The Reaver $15.37 and The Adversary @ $15.49
I want to read and own them all....but I purchase 3 of them even though I still thought they were about a buck or two high....but no way can I support even my favorite authors when their books are priced at 2x of those I purchased. Hells, they are even over 200% of the mass market paperback price.
It's really maiking me crazy and feeling bad for the authors of the Novels I am not buying.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 26 Mar 2014 : 15:49:25
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| If an e-book costs more than a printed paperback, someone is clearly jacking around with the prices. |
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DragonReader
Senior Scribe
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 26 Mar 2014 : 17:57:50
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ebooks are priced higher when the physical book is only out in hardcover. The ebook price will drop when the paperback edition comes out. This seems to be a pretty standard industry practice and not anything to do with WOTC.
Since both The Reaver and The Adversary are still out in hardback that is why they are more then the others (The Herald sems to be a bargin to get people to preorder). When their respective paperbacks come out the price will drop.
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DragonReader
Senior Scribe
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 26 Mar 2014 : 17:59:01
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| I should have mentioned that because Amazon often discounts hardback new releases, this can occassionally result in the physical book being cheaper than the ebook, but if I understand how it works, this is due to Amazon not WOTC. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2014 : 02:03:44
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| I don't understand how anyone could pay more than $5 for an e-book. |
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Madpig
Learned Scribe
Finland
148 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2014 : 06:30:00
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Originally posted by Entreri3478
I don't understand how anyone could pay more than $5 for an e-book.
That is when you live somewhere where physical books are hard to get. And ordering from amazon takes forever. Also here in finland paperbacks can cost up to 19,99€ and thats about 27,50$. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 27 Mar 2014 : 14:17:45
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Originally posted by DragonReader
ebooks are priced higher when the physical book is only out in hardcover. The ebook price will drop when the paperback edition comes out. This seems to be a pretty standard industry practice and not anything to do with WOTC.
Since both The Reaver and The Adversary are still out in hardback that is why they are more then the others (The Herald sems to be a bargin to get people to preorder). When their respective paperbacks come out the price will drop.
Indeed. Learned it the hard way with Feist's novels.
Note, however, that some e-book prices remain high even after the paperbacks are already out. And people who are far from likely to buy the physical books from their local bookstores may still go for the overpriced e-books, because sometimes the shipping fee is thrice, four times (so forth) the price of the actual book.
So really, this "phenomenon" is nothing new.
RW, I suggest you just wait a little longer for the prices to go down, or just purchase the hardback. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 27 Mar 2014 : 22:06:15
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| DragonReader‘s explanation suggests that publishers want to sell as many hardbacks as they can before resorting to paperbacks. I wonder how profit margins compare? The only observation I can add is that one often sees boxes and piles of dog-eared paperbacks being trashed, but hardbacks seem to be perceived as somehow better or more valuable and thus rarely find themselves suffering the same fate. |
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Caolin
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Lothlos
Learned Scribe
USA
111 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2014 : 01:37:24
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The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
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ksu_bond
Learned Scribe
New Zealand
214 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2014 : 04:58:44
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| I keep wondering when someone will offer a combo...by hardback/paperback and get the e-copy...much like what has been done with dvd's |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
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Posted - 28 Mar 2014 : 10:21:59
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| One of the reasons I dont bother that much with ebooks is because the pricing is often similar if not greater than what one would pay for a paperback version. |
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DragonReader
Senior Scribe
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2014 : 13:50:47
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Originally posted by ksu_bond
I keep wondering when someone will offer a combo...by hardback/paperback and get the e-copy...much like what has been done with dvd's
Well it is not free but there is Kindle Matchbook, which allows you to get ebook copies of your prior purchases from amazon for $2.99 or less. Although I thin not all publishers/books participate in the program
Also I know Brandon Sanderson had a promotion once where if you bought a hardcopy of one of his books he would send you the ebook for free. You just had o send him a picture holding the book or a receipt or something.
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When is WotC going to figure out eBook pricing?
