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Originally Posted by GA Russell
But the problem isn't that the big publishers make most of their profits from hardback sales. The problem is that they cannot be trusted.
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I doubt that is the problem.
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Originally Posted by GA Russell
They used to say that the cost of materials was a big part of the price. Now they say it's not.
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Does that really matter? Either you want to read a book or you do not. Either you think the price is worth the experience, or you do not. People did not care that Amazon lost money on it's $9.99 ebooks. Why should it matter to them. Amazon was willing to sell the book at a price they were happy to pay. No one (or not many) bothered to even care HOW Amazon could afford to lose money.
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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Now they promise that the price of eBooks will come down for backlist titles, but we see on another thread that the price of the Catch-22 eBook is comparable to that of a new release.
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One book does not a market make. Even in Apple's iBook store -- most of the titles are less than $9.99. But, again, either you think the price is worth it _to you_ or you do not. It does not matter WHY a book has whatever price it has.
Let's say the publisher of Catch 22 has a very good reason for it's high price. Something to do with contracts with the author, yadda yadda. Just PRETEND there was a good reason for a moment. Does that change anything? Either you think the eBook is worth the price _to you_ or you do not. If it is too high, _for you_, according to your _own_ reasons -- then it won't matter whatever reason the publisher has.
Just as it wouldn't matter to folks if Amazon decided to lose money to sell it to you for $1. All that matters is if there is agreement between what you are willing to pay and what the seller is willing to sell it for.
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Originally Posted by GA Russell
They ask us to trust them and we don't. Lee, you give us permission to pirate the eBooks, but the publishers are not willing to do so. If they were, I would have no problem with the OP.
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I don't give folks permission to pirate. I think it's stealing. I'm just saying that those who steal do not matter anymore than those who only read books second hand. Both are invisible to the publisher who is marketing a book to folks who will PAY the price the publisher sets.
Lee