Even as its parent Macmillan defends its decision to implement agency pricing, Tor is putting that pricing to good use; Tor.com today announced that Tor is putting the e-book editions of three first-in-series young-adult fantasy novels on sale for $2.99 for the next four weeks: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake, Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers, and Shadow Grail: Legacies by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edgehill. They’re $2.99 each at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple.
A couple of the books look kind of tempting, and I might end up plunking down my three bucks. The only thing that stops me is that I don’t yet know if they’re DRM-free, as Tor promised all its e-books would be by July. If anyone who has bought them could let me know, that would be great.
Interesting to see Tor venturing into the self-publishing price range with these books—though it’s probably not a trend. The Kindle edition of the sequel to Anna Dressed in Blood, called Girl of Nightmares, is priced at $9.99 for pre-order. A pity—the first book tempts me at $3, but unless I really loved the first one I’d have a hard time shelling out $10 for the second.
“Interesting to see Tor venturing into the self-publishing price range with these books—though it’s probably not a trend.”
Nothing totally new. Tor/Macmillan and most of the other Agency 6 have $.99-$4.99 sale books each month.
Is Macmillan using Tor to test the market?