Fictionwise sent me a promo for ‘The Lovely Bones’ and some other movie books. I had already read ‘The Lovely Bones’ and thought I might enjoy a re-read. But it’s hard to swallow a $14.44 price ($16.99 if you aren’t a club member) when the mass-market paperback retails on Amazon for $7.99! The non-club price is MORE THAN double! And it’s locked down by DRM of course, making it less usable than its print counterpart. I think what has gotten lost in the whole ‘authors vs readers’ dialogue coming out of the whole Macmillan mess is that BOTH sides have to play fair. If we could really trust them to actually lower the price over time to match the comparable print counterpart, maybe we wouldn’t feel so strongly about paying that premium when the book is hot.
While a good point, I've never found Fictionwise to be particularly price competitive. In fact, the title is $4.99 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo for eReaders.
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