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I find a lot of this to be truly incomprehensible. You don't like the current price BUT you know if you wait a while the price will come down. ... So what's the big deal here people? Simply wait.
A little bit of perspective is in order. This isn't some life threatening medical condition you have, its a desire to read a book. Okay, so the desire doesn't stretch the wallet open quite that far. So what? So wait. Unlike many medical treatments, this price is almost guaranteed to come down. ... Some of you sound like kids grumbling in the car: "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"
So many here want the publishers and sellers to understand how ereaders and the Internet have changed the face of publishing. Well, guess what people? Ereaders and the Internet have changed the face of publishing! Including the ability to push ebooks out on a constantly sliding scale until they flush out buyers prepared to meet that price. If enough people abstain from purchase they will get the message and reduce, but while enough people buy at the higher price the rest just have to get used to waiting for the market to wash out. Actually it is not really much different to what happens in the pbook market, and for the same reasons (ie. NOT production cost), it is just that ebook markets are so much easier to play in that they can squeeze a bit tighter. While ever it works you can expect they will keep doing it.
Market forces etc etc as repeated on various threads. Surely this isn't too difficult to understand.
(Sorry, bad night.)
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