Amazon is selling the Kindle Edition of Scott Turow’s new book for $14.99.\u00a0 Substantially the same price as the print edition.\u00a0 Scott Turow is the extremely successful writer of legal suspense novels.\u00a0 Since they first created the Kindle Amazon has sold most e-books for $9.99.<\/p>\n
Amazon was forced to make this price increase by the publisher.\u00a0 They want to maximize the sell price and sell printed books.\u00a0 They have a huge sunk cost in the value of their printing plants and distribution systems and they want to preserve it.\u00a0 The publishers will lose of course because the cost of e-books is so much lower.\u00a0 The only question is: How long can the publishers hang on to the old model?\u00a0 They forced Amazon to capitulate to price increases but now they are running into consumer resistance on the customer review pages of their web site.\u00a0 Take a look:\u00a0 Innocent by Scott Turow Reviews<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n It is virtual civil disobedience.\u00a0 And of course I’m participating.\u00a0 We (the price protesters) have taken over the customer reviews and are rating the book one star.\u00a0 Hopefully the result will be a rapid change in the pricing by the publisher.\u00a0 I’m sorry for Scott Turow since he will lose some royalty money but in the words of Lenin: “If you want to make an omelet you have to break some eggs.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazon is selling the Kindle Edition of Scott Turow’s new book for $14.99.\u00a0 Substantially the same price as the print edition.\u00a0 Scott Turow is the extremely successful writer of legal suspense novels.\u00a0 Since they first created the Kindle Amazon has sold most e-books for $9.99. Amazon was forced to make this price increase by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[83,80,84,82,81],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says","tag-amazon","tag-books","tag-kindle","tag-pricing","tag-protests"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-NG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}