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Originally Posted by bhartman36
How much pull do you think the average author has? Not much. And frankly, there's nothing in it for them to ask the publisher to lower the price, anyway. Once you've posted a one-star review, in all likelihood, the damage is already done. (Yes, you can change or delete the review, but how many on the One Star Price Check Brigade are going to do that?)
The thing that I find most disturbing about the sentiment expressed above is that there's a hostage-taking mentality involved: "Give in to our demands or else."
Is there any reason in particular you'd expect anyone to respond positively to that?
To put this in a little bit of perspective: At a B&M store, the rational thing to do when you see something you think is priced to high is to not buy it. You don't see women outside Macy's picketing when they think the price of handbags is too high. You don't see people lined up outside supermarkets picketing because of the price of bottled water (which is a much bigger swindle, in terms of what you get for your money, than e-books are).
You can't really start dropping these turds into the review pool and expect people to humor you and pretend your behavior is rational.
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The average author has 100% of the rights, and can only give them up.
Maybe that author will do nothing, but maybe the next author will see what happened and respond so it doesn't happen to them. Maybe they will realize that giving rights to organizations that will piss off customers is a bad move. Maybe not, but it is fair for customers to let everyone know why they are angry.
--Carl