Originally Posted by abookreader
I think that in my case "Agency Pricing" has done nothing except make me uber-price conscious about the cost of a book. Pre-Digital reading/Agency Pricing I would have bought Vince Flynn's American Assassin on one of my Wal Mart runs and pretty much just paid the price without a whole lot of thought.
Now -- I see that $14.99 price or maybe it is down to $12.99 and I put my foot down. Yeah, I know it is extremely comparative to what I would have paid in hb prices before, but the whole DRM, Price Fixing, Geographic Restrictions and all the other crap the Publishers have pulled over the past year has just angered me to the point where I deliberately refuse to buy some books. It isn't so much the price, it is the culmination of the negative feelings I have toward some of those large Publishers that I just refuse to play their games now.
I'm sure I'll read Vince Flynn's book someday. But I'll do it on my terms. Its not like I haven't been reading since his book was released. I'm just reading other books instead of his.
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