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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I know that I just read 4 pages of text, but it doesn't really feel like it said anything other than that the prices will increase. I'm not even sure of the point that the author of the article is trying to make? Does he agree with the pricing or not? |
Personally (yes, I wrote the piece) I don't agree with current pricing policies.
But the article wasn't intended to push a particular viewpoint, more to explain what is happening, show the direction things are going in, to spark a debate amongst the readers, and gain slightly wider attention for issues like agency pricing.
I also wanted to make sure that we weren't totally one-sided, and remind people that there are a lot more steps to getting a book on the shelves than just an author with a typewriter.
In fact, it started out as a slightly different article, looking at general aspects of lunacy amongst publishers, including both book pricing and proposed rules for lending of eBooks, but we didn't have space for that, and so I published that independently on my own blog (GoneDigital.net)
Nigel