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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
What is your problem with the used after market?
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No problem at all. I'm one of the folks who don't matter. Or certainly was for most of my reading career. Is it REALLY so hard to understand that there IS a market for books over $20? That millions of such books are sold? That the publishers make MOST of their money from THOSE customers? That folks who are NEVER going to pay those prices do not dictate the price of new release books?
I mean, really. Just look at those who jumped on the professional photography example. There truly are a lot of people who think that professional photography isn't worth much more than the cost of ink and paper. Such people do not matter to a professional photographer. He doesn't cater to them. They are not his market. Their opinions on his prices are never going to change his prices.
All this talk about the cost of ebooks -- really is about people who never valued BOOKS at the "first run hard back book" price. Yeah, yeah, there are exceptions. But they are exceptions.
All I'm suggesting is folks just realize that they have NEVER (or rarely) been participants in the new book market. Their expectations about what a book should cost are out of line with the market.
Lee