{"id":16064,"date":"2015-05-01T11:51:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16064"},"modified":"2015-05-01T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T16:51:13","slug":"publishers-continue-to-manipulate-ebook-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16064","title":{"rendered":"Publishers continue to manipulate eBook Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalbookworld.com\/2015\/is-agency-ebook-pricing-suppressing-sales-hard-to-say\/\"><strong>Digital Book World<\/strong><\/a> posted on the impact <strong>Agency Pricing<\/strong>\u00a0is having on the eBook market and naively wonders if it is suppressing sales.\u00a0It certainly is slowing sales for the\u00a0digital titles of publishers who are greedily jacking their prices up. Who is going to\u00a0buy\u00a0an eBook if you\u00a0can order the paperback or hard cover for close to the same price?<\/p>\n<p>And it is certainly injecting new life into <strong>eBook Piracy<\/strong>. Google any book title and you won&#8217;t have to click through many pages before the pirated versions appear.<\/p>\n<p>The group least affected\u00a0by publishers forcing<strong> Agency Pricing<\/strong> on the market are <strong>Indie authors<\/strong>. (At least, those who have not signed away their options to <strong>Amazon Kindle Unlimited<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indie authors<\/strong> tend to set fair prices for their digital titles, and many have reported a leveling off of\u00a0the\u00a0drop in sales caused by <strong>Kindle Unlimited<\/strong> and the threat of <strong>Agency Pricing.<\/strong>\u00a0Still others have marked a modest rise in sales.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve said it since <strong>day one<\/strong>\u00a0at eBook Rumors: <strong>No DRM + Fair Prices = eBook sales, Market growth, and Piracy Reduction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Do they think that consumers cannot tell when they are being manipulated?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Book World posted on the impact Agency Pricing\u00a0is having on the eBook market and naively wonders if it is suppressing sales.\u00a0It certainly is slowing sales for the\u00a0digital titles of publishers who are greedily jacking their prices up. Who is going to\u00a0buy\u00a0an eBook if you\u00a0can order the paperback or hard cover for close to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=16064\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14,16,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16064"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16072,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064\/revisions\/16072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}