Even Major Authors Experimenting With Bargain E-Books

If Pelecanos was a self-published author like Amanda Hocking that would make plenty of sense. But this is George Pelecanos, author of (by our count) 18 books and producer for two seasons of The Wire.

So why is his latest e-book a buck?

“Our goal is to increase George’s audience,” Reagan Arthur, editorial director of Reagan Arthur Books, an imprint of Lagardere SCA’s Hachette Book Group, told the WSJ.