Comments on: Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price

By: Webbshop

Webbshop — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:36:42 +0000

I think this can be a big thing. Traditional companys need to develop towards the market and new publishers or writers can directly sell to their readers.

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8.13.10: Antitrust Threat for eBooks? : San Francisco Book Review — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:26:30 +0000

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By: stephen612

stephen612 — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:54:28 +0000

Ultimately, e-book prices will settle at what the market will bear, not where publishers wish or “need” them to be. While what the market will bear is fundamentally a decision made by consumers, publishers who market their titles better to create higher perceived value will win this game.

By: Gary Custom Web Design

Gary Custom Web Design — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:38:04 +0000

Good question Robert.
I believe that most ebooks will not support the iPad format making less available books for the iPad currently. In the future will there be much pricing differential?

By: musicbiz

musicbiz — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:54:32 +0000

I agree with you and also with the response above you,
In order to compete with other services and also sadly- piracy you have to give something good enough and not overpriced, its true that people perceive the digital product as less of a value then a tangible product even though today people are more willing to pay for content. But raising the pricing of anything digital is dangerous.

By: Blog Weight

Blog Weight — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:11:24 +0000

How do you consider a model of monthly submission fee with unlimited (or limited to some extent) access to an e-book library?

Something like “Amazon-Kindle” model with variations. Do such models have a big future?

Thank you.

By: Lee Pound

Lee Pound — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:39:03 +0000

Like most people in the book business, I’ve seen a lot of demand from authors who want an e-book edition of their book. It is still way too early to tell how much effect doing it automatically will have on book sales. However, it is a necessary step and thank you Macmillan for giving it a try.

By: Joe from Article Libre De Droit

Joe from Article Libre De Droit — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:18:13 +0000

Hello,

I think that electronic version of books(ebook) is a profitable solution, not only to supplayer but egaelement for the author. This one little to receive bigger one left profits, because there is less of intermédiare.

The lower cost also insite the readers to buy more. Instead of buying a book in everything 2 months, it can buy one every month

Furthermore, with ebook Web becomes a médiun excellent of communication. The authors can write soem aritlces libre de droit which on one or several sites of fourniseurs…

Ebooks is the future of bookshops.

By: B&B Portugal

B&B Portugal — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:08:26 +0000

How does all this affect an author? Do they lose out in the long run?
Without authors you have nothing.

By: Jennifer the author

Jennifer the author — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:48:46 +0000

The “agency model” sounds quite promising since it will allow retailer to carry more inventory at no cost. BUT the major problem I see with this is more paperwork & communication in terms of getting the publisher to send the book to the retailer. For every order the retailer makes, he’ll have to make sure that the order is being fulfilled by the publisher. There will be constant back and forth and I believe it will create a huge bottleneck in the end.