Book pricing snafu?

[Smitty]

on Amazon the ebook version of Unspoken Truth is $18.99 and paperback is $24.23
Seems a little high

 

[Therin of Andor]

on Amazon the ebook version of Unspoken Truth is $18.99 and paperback is $24.23
Seems a little high

There are also second hand copies at everything between $0.01 and $742.00.

 

[Defcon]

Those are most likely the print on demand reprints S&S offers for out of print books, sadly they also hike the eBook prices very often when the POD are released.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Those are most likely the print on demand reprints S&S offers for out of print books, sadly they also hike the eBook prices very often when the POD are released.

The SF bookshop in Sydney accidentally ordered in a batch of P.O.D. Trek reprint novels, assuming it was a new title. They are oddly larger than the regular MMPB, and the margins are wide. Collectors would be better off trying their luck on a clean second hand copy.

 

[Smitty]

Yeah rather amazing. That kind of stuff makes piracy flourish. Not my style, I would get at library or friend but the end result is the same... Publisher an author get nothing.

 

[Stevil2001]

Those are most likely the print on demand reprints S&S offers for out of print books, sadly they also hike the eBook prices very often when the POD are released.

Yeah, I think the eBook prices are set as a percentage of the print price. Though it's not universal-- a new copy of A Choice of Catastrophes $19.18 on Amazon, but the eBook is $6.99, for example.

The SF bookshop in Sydney accidentally ordered in a batch of P.O.D. Trek reprint novels, assuming it was a new title. They are oddly larger than the regular MMPB, and the margins are wide. Collectors would be better off trying their luck on a clean second hand copy.

Yeah, I taught Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis: Dawn in class this summer. The book is $18.73 in POD on Amazon, whereas the whole trilogy in TPB is $13.97. I told my students to get the TPB version, but a couple got the POD one anyway. It was weird looking-- wide margins, like you say-- and also there were a number of printing errors-- missing lines and the like.

 

[JD]

Those are most likely the print on demand reprints S&S offers for out of print books, sadly they also hike the eBook prices very often when the POD are released.

I understand why they would just set it at a specific percentage of the paperback version, but prices like Unspocken Truth's for the equivalent of a MMPB are annoying.

 

[Therin of Andor]

... prices like Unspoken Truth's for the equivalent of a MMPB are annoying.

But it's not produced as a MMPB, hence the costings are totally different. There wasn't enough call for a regular reprinting, so now any new copies required are made to order. Totally different pricing to MMPB, but some savings compensated by no warehousing fees.

 

[JD]

I understand that, but still think it isn't fair that the e-books have to go up in price when as far as I know it would still be the exact same thing it was at $7.99 or $6.99.

 

[tomswift2002]

I ordered a copy of "Sins Of Commission" a while ago and, from what I could tell, it looked like S&S has just ripped apart an original version and scanned every single page into photoshop, but had the scanner set to enlarge each page by about 25%, so everything from the cover art to the interior printing,when I compared it to my ex-library copy, seemed extremely soft and out of focus. Even the text seemed blurred.