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It is simply an observation that nobody here seems to actually be hampered in their reading despite the Agency price hikes. There seems to be PLENTY of other options. Plenty of authors selling ebooks for very cheap. Folks also demonstrating that they can just read books they already own....or use the library more....or buy used books.
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People like to bitch about prices, they really do. At any point, there are three threads going on the site complaining about agency pricing, each with self-appointed experts proclaiming what the "right price" should be for e-books and how publishers are pursuing the "wrong strategy". These folks have never worked a day in the book industry and have never run their own business , but suddenly, they are experts on marketing, pricing, corporate finance, and other stuff that people go to business school to study.
What's interesting is that besides all this talk about "unconscionable" agency pricing, there is another forum where thousands of books are on offer for free or for cheap, often by those same publishers who are excoriated for "agency price fixing". Heck, on this very forum there is a thread dedicated to those who complain of the "addiction" of buying too many e-books. Of course, this makes a mockery of the idea that e-book prices are too high and that those too high prices are stifling demand. Indeed, since the bestseller lists are filled with those "overpriced" agency books, we can conclude that these "experts" are dead wrong about the demand-killing effect of agency pricing.
Oh well, think of this forum as a place where people can "blow off steam" about prices. In that way, it serves an important social function.