It appears that Amazon.com's pricing model for electronic books - just under $10 - is on its way to becoming the norm. Barnes & Noble, on its eReader site, is now offering digital versions of New York Times bestsellers for $9.95, Just a hair cheaper than Amazon's standard $9.99 For such books. The downward pressure on e-book pricing has rattled many book publishers.

techflash.com • 7.2.09 @11:54AM

Hayden Frost what they need to do with all digital content is just make it so if the content doesn't get x sales over y unit time, the price drops 1%, and if it exceeds some threshold the price goes up 1%. then just repeat into infinite and bottom out 5% above the marginal cost of reproduction (in digital, that'd be pennies). the price would exactly match the demand for the content. if that means that an mp3 will cost you $3, fine. as the price gets higher, the amount of people buying it will decrease, and when the tick comes up, the price will start to drop automatically.

the problem is that the current prices are based on some number decided by some marketer based on what he wanted to impress his boss with. the content creators and owners need to set aside their egos and let the public buy content for an amount that matches the actual market demand. 7.2.09 @11:54AM

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