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Originally Posted by pricecw
The average author has 100% of the rights, and can only give them up.
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Which the author invariably does when dealing with a publisher. Getting published through a publisher
always involves relinquishing some rights. The only question that's ever at issue is how
many rights you give up. And because publishers are in the business to make money, pricing is something that authors
invariably have to give publishers rights to, in order to get published.
Even if authors
could have control over their e-books' prices, it's not at all clear to me why they
would lower the price in response to 1-star reviews. You're basically demanding they make less money in return for not causing them trouble. So they can either make less money and listen to the protests, or keep the price where it is and make less money
because of the protests. Seeing as how it's much easier to keep the price where it is, since they don't actually have to
do anything, I can't see a situation where the reviews would have the desired effect.
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Originally Posted by pricecw
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
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It's absolutely fair for customers to let everyone know why they're not happy. I would never suggest otherwise. But there are other places on the Amazon site, and even on the product page, where people can vent their opinions on issues like that without being dishonest and intentionally corrupting the system.