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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
On a very academic level, you're right. But to think that an author who has put months or years into his work, months or years into finding an agent, and months or years into finding a publisher...to expect him to get within spitting distance of being published and suddenly say, "No...I want to control the ebook price or there's no deal"...well, that's just unrealistic.
That's like working your butt off to get into the college of your dreams and saying, "The hamburgers you sell on campus cost too much...never mind!"
To put it bluntly, you really need to write a book, get an agent, attract a publisher, and get neck-deep into negotiations to comprehend how improbable it is that any author would go to the mat over the ebook price.
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I think you just agreed with what I said "So, some, if not most, authors go into it and will do and agree to whatever to get published".
My point, they have that power, they have guilds that are supposed to guide and help them. However, do to a desire and wish to get published, they will agree to horrible terms from current publishers. I feel for them wrt to this, but I still feel that the consumer has a voice and a right to use it.
Maybe, if this happens to enough authors, others and the writing guilds pay attention, and start fighting for what is good for authors, and not publishers.
Now, I also think there are authors that firmly believe that this is the right way to run their business, and I hope that if individuals and groups target authors, those are first, but I also won't tell them how or who to target.
--Carl