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I get really annoyed when the paper book price is less than the ebook price. I also refuse to spend more than $9.99 on an ebook. I don't know if the 1 star reviews will work or not, but I could see the publishers not liking that at all.
My conspiracy theory is that book publishers would prefer it if ebooks failed and were never heard from again. The longer they can stave off ebook adoption the better for them. They won't need to find ways to address piracy, they won't have to give up the margins on the hardcovers...basically from a publishers viewpoint....I can't think of many reasons to be happy about ebooks. They won't have to worry about authors hiring their own editors and cutting them out of the loop entirely.
They are probably happy to stick with paper book sales as long as possible. The 1 star reviews lower the books rating overall....and if people use those ratings...the publishers working so hard to sabotage ebooks are also affecting paper sales. That is why I suspect that the 1-star reviews might have a tiny influence on publishers....but only if people really do use the star ratings to decide which books to buy.
I do feel bad for Authors, though to be honest I felt bad for them right from the start as they never seem to get a good deal. I really hope that ebooks take off and become popular enough for authors to self publish profitably and cut out the publishers altogether.
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