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My first thought: "Are people are buying public domain philosophy works as Kindle books?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
My second thought: "Is somebody writing as Locke as a reference to Ender's Game?"
Was the author employed by a traditional publisher to discredit the Kindle business model?
It will be interesting to see how sustainable his success is. I bought one of his books for $0.99, well below my impulse buy threshold, and found it to be worth about that. It wasn't a really bad book, but it wasn't much better than what you find in a college creative writing class.
> Locke makes less money with his 99-cent gambit than he would selling the same number of books with a traditional publisher. It's like nobody has ever heard of a supply/demand curve.
> Locke makes less money with his 99-cent gambit than he would selling the same number of books with a traditional publisher. It's like nobody has ever heard of a supply/demand curve.
Well she does say "the same number of books with". It's the implicit assumption that he'd sell the same number of books that is faulty, not the text itself.