Re: Kindle and its peers

**J* L* <h*@yahoo.com>**

Interesting that you should key in on that $9.99 price as the standard, Doug, since the big news the past few days has been Wal-Mart, Target and others announcing that they will be selling print hardcover bestsellers within a few pennies of that price. 

That should be scary to all writers. It's one thing for ebooks to sell for $9.95 -- they're still a small portion of the market, (although Amazon announced today that people who own Kindles buy almost 3 times as many books as they did before they owned one). 

But what does it do to the market -- and what writers get paid and publishers make -- for every hard cover to be sold at less than $10?? (Currently, many mass-market paperbacks are $7.99.)

Definitely something to watch. As Doug says, What fun!

Judy Lowe

http://twitter.com/JudyDigginit

Message: 4
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:44:17 -0400
From: Doug Green <gardeningemail@gmail.com>

Itunes has pretty much established the price of a bit of music is .99.
Amazon has pretty much put the price of an ebook maxed out at 9.99 So where
do magazines/newspapers etc fit into all this when they don't have to have a
press run?  And how will they design for this small format etc etc.  Way
more questions than answers and I'm sure the publishers are trying to sort
it out.

What fun! LOL.

Doug

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