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....You know, for the prices they often sell regular books in Australia, even the hijacked prices look cheap.I'm used to the whole books for an ounce of proverbial (or not) gold thing and it sucks. It's always sucked, it's just now in a different form and to more people.
And to be perfectly frank, I don't buy books from major publisher - in part because I cannot legally buy from whole handfuls oof them, or because they have drm or the price is attempting to reach australian paper book prices and it just makes me want to go hide on smashwords or gutenburg.
Smashwords, by the way, does get my money and even if the books aren't mainstream, I've still read some good ones. I'd happily pay 10-12 dollars for more mainstream books if they would let me and didn't come with a zillion strings attached, because it's better than the 20-50 dollars I'd have to pay for the privilege of buying it in paper. And no, I'm not talking about hardcovers souly. I don't buy a lot of those, I don't need them. But I do buy more ebooks from the 0-12 range than I'd by in 10-12+.
I'm not sure that messing with the reviews system (even if Amazon doesn't mind) actually helps that much, however. Though I do not see a better way (not buying them, as I do, aside) to voice your annoyance.
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