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Originally Posted by Barcey
Or just make your own copy for free. After all, the big publishers aren't price fixing and copyright violation isn't stealing. If the BPH's want to play that game they'll lose.
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It's theft in my jurisdiction. It's only under federal law that the crime has a different name - but I don't think that the name matters much, as you are appropriating someone's work without paying them for it. That's "stealing" in my book. This has been an issue for people who produce or sell things as long as things have been produced or sold.
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Highroller's reaction is very typical to the irrational e-book pricing. Pricing e-books higher then what a paper version is selling for will just continue to upset people. "Experimenting" to find out the maximum price that people will pay (before they get pissed of and stop buying) is not how you price virtual goods. That's what market research is for. You have to do it properly and you have to accept the results and then figure out how you can deliver to that price point, increase the product value or go out of business.
Consumers are not going to react the way you think they should. Virtual goods have different economic rules then physical goods. Pretending they don't doesn't make it so.
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A lot of people seem to be buying e-books from agency publishers. I mean, agency pricing was introduced, seemingly everyone on the internet complained, and yet sales tripled. I'm not sure that the rules are as different as people wish them to be.