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Originally Posted by BillSmithBooks
It's pretty obvious there is a complete disconnect between the manufacturers (publishers) and the audience.
The audience is screaming, "Make it cheap, make it easy to use and you will sell a lot more copies and make a lot more money. We're not in it to rip you off...but we don't want to be ripped off by you. Give us ebooks at $1, $2, $5 and each of us will buy many, many more than we do now at $9.99 each. Make it easier and cheaper than buying used paperbacks and we'll support you."
The publishers are saying, "Oh, no, it's our price or nothing."
Nothing it is.
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Hear Hear!
If they make it reasonable people will buy. If not, they will download for free. The same thing happens in the Tobacco industry. When the tax hikes up to a huge percentage of the cost of smokes, the chopchop industry goes wild and organised crime gets involved.
If all ebooks were capped at $5, the tidal wave of the reading revolution will come in faster and we will all benefit including the publishers. Well the printers may lose out, they will have to start investing in the technology to make ebooks real quick.