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Originally Posted by NVash
I think I see the point that the OP, leebase, was trying to make. If ten people are willing to buy the hardcovers of a book at $30 and five people say thats crazy and wait for the paperback then it seems they dont matter. Who cares what the paperback audience wants? The bottom line is those 10 people paid $30 for that hardcover. No need to drop the price there when many people are willing to pay that price. IMHO this practice is horribly obvious as well, look at the price of hardcovers. You may not be willing to pay that price but someone else is and thats who matters. Many people on here have said that they pay the hardcover price for ones they really like, they matter. Not the paperback crowd, not the ebook crowd.
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Unfortunately, that's not what the OP said originally, and it's not even what he's saying now. He insisted that only the people who pay the full HC price matter to pulbishers, and nobody else does, because only those people "support the art." All the waffling in the world doesn't change what he posted. It wasn't about initial sale prices, it was about prices at all, ever. He's trying to pretend now that's not what he said, but he said it and defended it too many times, and it's up there for everyone to read.
(and, of course, there's the thread title)