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Any book that is $5 more expensive than current market price will instantly lose to thousands of competative cheaper books where authors write about similar top
by smugglerFlynn 3y ago
Any book that is $5 more expensive than current market price will instantly lose to thousands of competative cheaper books where authors write about similar topics while agreeing to earn peanuts.
You can try solving this by industry-wide regulations, but that would make average price of books much higher, and will likely steer readers to other medias, shift revenues to already established writers, or both.
- zer0tonin 3y agoAre books purchase really so price sensitive? It's not exactly like you're buying potatoes
- ghaff 3y agoI’m not sure it’s a continuous supply-demand curve but you get out of the “normal” discounted range—say above $15–and people will really think twice.
- falcolas 3y agoIMO, in the age of Kindle Unlimited, yes. I, myself, have a very hard time justifying purchases over $6. The reason is pretty simple, the higher priced books are not guaranteed to be better, just written by a more widely recognized author.
- EA 3y agoOP should just donate $5 to his favorite writers.
- ziddoap 3y ago>Any book that is $5 more expensive than current market price will instantly lose to thousands of competative cheaper books where authors write about similar topics while agreeing to earn peanuts. I could see this being true for non-fiction, but for fiction? I'm generally not looking at price, I'm looking at whether the story seems interesting. Two books can both be about space battles (or whatever your topic of choice is), but one can seem extremely interesting while the other doesn't. Similar topics doesn't really mean much compared to everything else (writing style, characters, etc.)
- massysett 3y ago"You can try solving this by industry-wide regulations" Also known as "price fixing".