http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/14/hachette-to-raise-ebook-prices-for-libraries-by-220/ The economics of digital content Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/14/hachette-to-raise-ebook-prices-for-libraries-by-220/#comment-150461 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:58:07 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=217806#comment-150461 Wow. The Douglas County Libraries’ solution is sounding better and better! http://douglascountylibraries.org/content/ebooks-and-DCL

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/14/hachette-to-raise-ebook-prices-for-libraries-by-220/#comment-148839 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:11:48 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=217806#comment-148839 Libraries should just stop buying all books from Hatchette not just ebooks. If they want to act like pirates treat them like pirates.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/14/hachette-to-raise-ebook-prices-for-libraries-by-220/#comment-148700 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:28:45 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=217806#comment-148700 Okay, I guess I never thought I would ever promote the HC plan, but it is certainly preferable to the RH and Hachette plans. It would make more sense to jack the price on titles where the library would be more inclined to purchase multiple copies to sate reserve demand. Mid-list authors will be screwed royally — the plans will literally steal market share from within their own publishing program. The best library sales, on average, account for anywhere between 6K and 12K for the bound books. I suppose they think there replacing revenue lost to e-books, but the net result will be that libraries will buy fewer titles overall, focusing only on those that will command a high circulation, and consequently keep the overall producer surplus equal over fewer titles. This suggests they’re creating these policies out of fear, not any hard statistical market research.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/14/hachette-to-raise-ebook-prices-for-libraries-by-220/#comment-148411 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:45:46 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=217806#comment-148411 Reblogged this on #Hashtag – Thoughts on Law, Technology, the Internet, and Social Media and commented:
Hachette to raise ebook prices for libraries by 220%
Starting in October, libraries will pay an average of 220 percent more for Hachette’s ebooks. Hachette still does not make new ebooks available to most libraries; all the books affected were published before April 2010. Random House increased prices for librairies earlier this year.

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