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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
If something is wildly overpriced, even though I covet it, it ticks me off enough to spoil my enjoyment and I look for an alternative product.
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This. Or you end up renting it from the library instead.
I agree with you that Bezos was going for a floor -- I thought so at the time and I still think so now. It didn't take a genius to see that once self-publishing was a possibility, the floodgates would open and suddenly we'd be awash in every indie author who'd thought about self-publishing but was turned off by the printing costs.
AND, of course, the authors who'd gotten their publishing rights back from the first go-round. AND the PD stuff. AND...
