Is traditional publisher ebook pricing harming authors' careers?

The Tech Dirt blog has covered a number of stories dealing with ebooks and their disruption of normal publishing. There have been a lot of growing pains in the industry as the ebook market continues to expand, replacing physical sales (and their associated margins and intentional bottlenecks) and knocking down a healthy number of barriers to entry. Allegations of ebook price fixing are still in the air, pending the Department of Justice’s investigation. No matter the final decision, publishers will still be free to set ebook prices as high or low as they want to. But if they insist on pricing themselves out …

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