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Originally Posted by sabredog
Could not agree more, having been forced to pay more for wanted ebooks, then find them restricted from further download from my bookshelf at various stores.
If publishers were fair dinkum about reducing piracy then they would remove DRM, stop colluding on price to prop up hardcover prices and abolish geographic restrictive practices. Casual piracy would decrease markedly and quickly
For them (and their counterparts in the music and entertainment industry) it is far easier to bury heads in sand and cry poor when they release "woe is me" press releases based on dubious, exaggerated, misread or falsified statistics.
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i'm no business major. but it seems to me that if one wants their products in as many hands as possible they'd make it as easy and as inexpensive to do so.
obviously thats a wacky idea and the suits must know more than i do lol.
all i can do is speak for myself and from where i'm standing i would buy far, far more books if they were cheaper. i also don't think that newbie authors books should cost the same as a well established authors. new writer? $5. established author? you could get away with $10. anything more than that and i start looking at other entertainment media, i'd rather go buy a $20 xbox game that i'll get a week out of than a $15 ebook i'll have finished in a night.
thats also why i havent bought any agency ebooks yet. i dont need to, theres boatloads of good indie/small press books for under $5.