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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Thay maybe so, but I have no sympathy for people who deliberately restrict their audience to a tiny minority of rich people. If they have no interest in selling it to a mainstream audience I don't see anything wrong with the audience making their own arrangements.
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the thing is though, most of these high prices aren't even charged by the publisher. the books are out of print and they're secondary market prices. so who am i really "stealing" from, some greedy speculator?
i'm perfectly willing to pay the $50 or so for a current release luxury hardcover from an author i love. i'm not paying 3 times that to some greedy speculating hoarder. the author certainly isn't seeing a cut of the inflated price.
most of the digital copies of them are poorly formatted pdfs, i'd gladly buy a legitimate legal copy. there simply aren't any. i'm just giving myself access to works that i would never, ever see otherwise.
something like car prices are high for a reason. manufactured collectibles like limited edition books only exist to serve a handful of speculators, not true fans of an author.