With one day's notice, Random House is moving to Agency Pricing on it's ebooks, effective tomorrow: March 1, 2011. What this will mean is that the prices will go up on many of the books that have been discounted by Amazon and other booksellers (including many that you could use discount coupons on, when shopping at Kobo). There are rumors that they will have more free books (but, the record so far has been that the publishers that moved to Agency pricing have dropped the number of free books, instead offering low-priced early books in a series instead).
Some examples of authors that will be effected: Jean M. Auel (you can pre-order the next book in her series, THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES, at $9.99 right now, rather than the $30 list), Karen Marie Moning, Stieg Larsson, Teresa Medeiros, Dan Brown (his $35 list The Lost Symbol: Special Illustrated Edition is still $3.99 right now), Ron Roy (several of the kid's A to Z titles at 88 cents tonight), Anne Mccaffrey, Nancy Pelosi ($14.95 list Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters is $3.06).
If you want to skim thru some of the current sale books and see what bargains are out there and that will probably be gone after 3AM EST (Midnight in Seattle), click on the links below. I've limited the results to books that are at least 25% off and priced under $9.99. There are a lot of $5.00 and $9.99 books on these lists that will end up being much higher tomorrow, if their pricing follows what all the other publishers have done.
There are, of course, too many to list, as this is a very large publisher. This search will get you a list of books currently discounted at 50% off or more, with a price under $10.00, but includes all publishers, not just the Random House imprints. There may be a few with higher prices in the US, as the search sometimes picks up lower prices in other countries, but those should only show up here and there..
Click HERE to read the press release.
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