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Originally Posted by abookreader
And that is the cusp of where we disagree. It certainly is possible for a publisher to price a product at more than the market feels the eBook is worth. Repeating over and over that it isn't possible doesn't make it true. Companies can price too high for market sentiment and still manage to survive.
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Ok. So how does the publisher force YOU to pay more for an ebook than YOU feel it's worth? I've paid more than I WANTED to pay, but I paid because ultimately I wanted to read the book, read it now, and read it in electonic format. Other books, priced the same as the one I bought, I refused to buy because I did not value them enough.
I'm all ears to discover that folks are being coerced into paying more than they think the ebook is worth. Is there some ebook tax or governement ebook purchasing program I'm unaware of?
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Originally Posted by abookreader
It happens all the time - especially in an environment such as Agency Publishing where the major market controllers attempt to impede competition by price co-operation between the major players.
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I've not even debated "price fixing". I'll concede for the point of this discussion tha the Agency 5 can now "fix the price" of their ebooks. What they can't do is get anybody to PAY for those ebooks.
You want to read The Odysseus from Penguin Publishing ebooks? The price is "too high" -- and there are already used versions for sale at much lower price. So why not just buy the used book? Why not just check the book out from the library? Why not just read the non-Penguin version that's available for free from Project Gutenberg? Why not read another book instead? Why read a book at all when you can go to the movies, or watch tv?
You say there is no competition -- but I keep pointing out that there is PLENTY of competition.
Lee