Another intersting article

 This is a article from Books on Board and it talks about how the prices of some books may go up in price starting in April.

Drastic eBook Price Change Coming Next Week

Last Chance to Get Discounted Prices on Many of our Titles

In an unexpected move, 5 of the industry’s top publishers have advised us in the last week that they are imposing a Required Ebook Pricing model on all ebook stores as of April 1. This is not an April Fool’s joke, but a significant price increase on many of our popular ebooks. In order to keep offering these titles, we are required to comply. These publishers are the following and all their imprints (full list agency pricing ebook imprints here):

• Hachette (publisher of Stephanie Meyer, David Baldacci, James Patterson and more),
• Penguin (publisher of Nora Roberts/JD Robb, Lora Leigh, Nalini Singh, the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris)
• Harper Collins (publisher of much Dennis Lehane, Christine Feehan, James Rollins, Johanna Lindsey, Diane Mott Davidson, Kerrelyn Sparks, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lisa Kleypas, Jodi Picoult, Jeaniene Frost, and Tony Hillerman)
• MacMillan (publisher of Lisa Scottoline, Governor Mitt Romney, Terry Goodkind and more)
• Simon & Schuster (publisher of Kresley Cole, Kathy Reichs, Sabrina Jeffries)

What does this mean?

Now is the time to buy for enormous savings that will go away everywhere on March 31

If you have titles you want to buy from these publishers, the 5 publishers require prices to go up everywhere next Wednesday – in many cases, almost doubling. Some might not even be available while the publishers and our wholesalers change their systems to accommodate the change. If you know you want to buy eBooks from these publishers, you may want to buy them right away so as to get enormous savings versus what you will pay starting next Wednesday night, March 31st.

Sales Tax to be Added in US states for these Publishers

US customers will be charged sales tax on the titles from these publishers where you have not been charged sales tax in the past. This will not be true of other publishers titles, still representing the largest portion of our catalog.

Most BooksOnBoard titles are NOT affected by this

About 70% of our titles will continue to be discounted with our every day good discounts and Rewards dollars. Top publishers who will continue to allow you to enjoy great discounts include Harlequin, Random House, Samhain, and more;

The 5 publishers titles will be at full eBook list price starting next Thursday in ALL eBook retail stores

About 30% of our titles – all the books from these 5 publishers – will be priced the same everywhere at the full eBook list price, which the publishers are now calling Required Ebook Pricing or REP pricing.

The Authors are NOT getting additional royalties for this change. Everything goes to the publishers
Popular Authors whose titles will continue to enjoy discounts for you include, by publisher: (publisher name can be found
Random House: John Grisham, Stieg Larsson (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Jenna Black, Dan Brown, some titles from Eloisa James, Sophie Kinsella, Danielle Steel, Mary Balogh, Alexander McCall Smith, Clive Cussler, Christopher Paolini, Jean M. Auel, Linda Howard, Sapphire (Precious);
Harlequin: Gena Showalter, Linda Goodnight, Jane Porter, Susan Wiggs, Sharon Kendrick, Some Maya Banks, Diana Palmer, Susan Mallery, and many more;
Samhain: Lorelei James, Jess Dee, Jayne Rylon, Vivian Arend, Vivi Andrews, and many more