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If the used book market means nothing to the Publishers - then why in the heck did they sue Amazon to try and get it shut down?
Of course publishers would prefer to sell eBooks at higher prices and of course publishers would love it if eBook buyers would simply buy at release day for the same price as the printed book. Win/Win for them.
BUT publishing retail isn't all that different than any other retail and in the real marketplace suppliers who do not meet what their customers want to buy at the price customers are willing to pay - fail.
And then maybe they get a government bail out but that's a different story.
Trying to wrap all that up in some sort of but if you don't pay higher prices you aren't supporting the art kind of argument is false. Even artists must eventually sell in a supply and demand market - or they starve. or become waiters instead of artists.
Either way. Customers make the decision. Attract them or turn them away by telling them they don't matter. Because really if the "publishers" want to do that, there will almost certainly be another supplier right around the corner who thinks they do matter.
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