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Originally Posted by lack
That analogy doesn't work. Pbooks have same content on different packaging quality and time of releases: HC, TPB, MMPB. then there is the same content, minus packaging, digitalized with all the pros and cons of it. The pricing of the former, while confusing (to me at least), still looks to be going strong. The latter, still evolving, still subject to tests and market adaptation.
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Yes. It's essentially the same product. As always. Where was the extreme anger BEFORE? Where was the DEMAND that publishers release paperbacks at the same time as hard backs before?
$12.99 - $14.99 is a good deal cheaper than the previous benchmark for new release hard backs. Cheaper. How is that worthy of so much anger? Why NOW should we be gathering out pitchforks and looking to burn the publishers down?
We both know why. Because, thanks to Amazon, it's a price INCREASE from Amazon's subsidizing of new release ebooks (a program who's sole aim was domination of the market).
I just do not believe that, in the main, the folks angry were routinely paying the previous prices. If they were, they'd still see these ebook prices as REDUCED prices. What makes sense to me is that the paperback book crowd had got a taste for NEW release popular books at the prices they were used to paying. Now that SEEMS to be taken away from them and it's p@ssed them off.
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Originally Posted by lack
So same content, literally beating a dead horse if you talk about the former, but a fresh discussion every day for the latter. Let the market reveal itself.
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I'll let you in on a little secret. Neither "side" in this discussion has changed their minds. When there are hundreds of posts by folks making essentially the same point TO me -- I let charges of "beating a dead horse" bounce right off me. It's the same thing when someone writes me dozens of posts and THEN has the temerity to claim "you just have to have the last word". As IF they aren't vying for that themselves.
Lee