AL.com continues the discussion on the price of eBooks, citing a ‘creep’ skyward on bestsellers and other popular authors. I think we’ll see some pricing changes come after the US Justice Department completes its anti-trust (price-fixing) lawsuit against Apple and five large New York publishers (Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster,MacMillan, Penguin, and Harper Collins).
If you remember, previous to Apple and co-conspirator’s push for the adoption of the expensive Agency Model, Amazon had discovered that consumers were willing to pay $9.99 per title.
Interestingly, since the adoption of the Agency Model (where publishers set their own high prices on eBooks) there has been an explosion in eBook Piracy and file-sharing.
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