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Old 01-20-2011, 02:48 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung View Post
I figure businesses are best able to figure out what they "should" do, given that they know their own resources, limitations and priorities. If they can't manage that, the marketplace will take care of them.

I wouldn't look to any business to serve every consumer. If big publishers decide they don't want to sell below a certain price point, that leaves room for smaller businesses. With books, as with many other products, there are substitute goods for those who want to pay less.
So what you're saying, in effect, is that it's pointless to have or offer an opinion, that only buying behavior matters. Okay, in the final analysis, that's true enough.

But then just why are ANY of these surveys done? The publishers and booksellers are attempting to figure out an emerging market they don't have a handle on. All some of us are saying here is that they seem to be asking the wrong questions.
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