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Originally Posted by murraypaul
The approach you are making, and ignoring when everyone is pointing out that you are wrong, is that only the hardback buying crowd matter. Not true. If that was the case we wouldn't have paperbacks. In fact paperbacks wouldn't be by far the largest section in book stores.
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But it's those willing to pay the hard back price that give the publishers the largest amount of the income they earn. The rest of us can WAIT until after "those who pay top dollar" have gotten the chance to read the books when they first come out and are most desired.
Folks are demanding the "new book experience" for the "old book price". But they don't matter to the publishers when it comes to pricing for that "new book experience".
I kinda wish Amazon had made the other choice, the choice to have ebooks windowed after the hard back book. Then folks might actually get what is going on. They could pay the "new book experience price" at Apple or B&N, or wait for the "book has been out awhile" price on Amazon.
The publishers truly don't care, or need to care, about catering "new book pricing" to those who have NEVER been willing to pay the price WHEN there is a market already established of people who will.
Lee