What a strangely convoluted business model they have discovered. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to sell the digital copy at a higher price initially? I doubt

What a strangely convoluted business model they have discovered. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to sell the digital copy at a higher price initially? I doubt many owners of e-book readers are interested in paper hardcovers anymore. Isn't that sort of the point? They'll most likely just read something else instead and maybe in 4 months they'll remember and buy the S&S book they were interested in. This is an incredibly hostile move to S&S's new, or lesser known, authors who depend on the first big wave of publicity and reviews to sell books. The well known S&S authors will fare better but will probably still experience some fallout. The bigger losers are S&S's best customers. The ones who buy lots of books, stay up on new releases, and do tons of free marketing by recommending books to friends & family.