Wow... all these angry buyers telling the publishers where to get off... yes, really having an effect so far, sales of eBooks continue to rise...
MobileRead and the ones carpet bombing reviews aren't exactly a lot in terms of the number of people using eReaders and EBooks. Of course because of posting lots of things and seeing their names on the screen then this makes us really important... not... whether posting bad reviews etc or not, we who post and complain, are a minority and a very small one.
Now whilst publishers may show a bit more sense in the future, why should they lower prices at the moment for people who (by their own admission) aren't customers when there are thousands of people who are buying...
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Originally Posted by Barcey
My conclusion is that if a group of people form a picket line on the sidewalk there will be another group of people that complain that sidewalks were intended for walking and not for people to stand around with signs.
Industries with healthy competition understand the importance of customer satisfaction and that you can't measure it based on sales statistics alone. The publishing industry better wake up that they have a lot of very angry customers and that they have to measure customer satisfaction beyond staring at current sales statistics.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You're seriously suggesting that noobies need to be told that the current prices are unacceptable? That just doesn't wash and you know it.
Because it isn't democracy at work, consumers don't get a vote--except with their dollars. And consumer dollars are saying that ebook sales just keep growing and growing with each passing day.
Sorry, but it has played out in my eyes. The Agency Pricing model has been in effect for almost a year, now. Ebook sales continue to grow. The war's over. It's time for the Brigade to lay down their stars, come home, and start a baby-boom.
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