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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
It's not that books are fungible, it's that there are so many more books that I want to read than there are hours in the day, and for my actual reading time, there are hordes of books clamoring to be read.
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I think this is true for the entire market and one of the reasons I see no reason to fear or be angry about publisher-set pricing.
I do understand that occasionally there's an issue I have with an artist or company that makes me personally boycott them (can someone say Jane Fonda?). I get it that a certain portion of folks are just offended that publisher-set pricing has raised the price of ebooks from those publishers.
However large said group is as a percentage of this forum, I think they are nowhere near large enough to matter. What you've written is what matters. There is simply TOO much choice, TOO much content for anyone to pull off price control (as in "controlled beyond what the market will bear").
I have put off buying books because of their price. I have bought books at premium prices because they are from the few of my "must read" authors. If I really want to read a book but the price is too high, I need merely wait to check it out at the library or buy the paper back when it comes out, or buy the book used. There are no "used ebooks" but, then again, I have not lost my ability to read a paper book just because I bought an iPad.
Mostly, though, I just move on to read other things. Like you wrote so eloquently -- "there are so many more books that I want to read than there are hours in the day".
Lee