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Originally Posted by ApK
You'd have have to know to boycott all books by those companies, even those that are priced really well, and let them know why.
ApK
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That is what I have done. After the introduction of agency pricing I kept a list of all of the agency books that I DIDN'T buy and about a year after agency pricing went into effect I sorted my list by publisher, and sent each of them a list of what I hadn't bought, and explained to them exactly why.
Of course the silence in response was deafening, except for the one publisher (I forget which, although I did save the e-mail somewhere) who sent me a canned e-mail which said "Thank you for your interest in our e-books", and gave me a list of e-tailers at which I could buy them.
So, I'm not sure this did much good. But, if enough folks did it, maybe it would.
I do disagree, however, about boycotting all books from the agency six - I do buy agency books when they are on sale or at what I consider to be a reasonable price. (Since I buy mostly backlist titles, my idea of a reasonable price is pretty low - my shelves are crowded, but not THAT crowded
) I'm a great believer in the power of positive reinforcement, and figure that maybe if publishers start noticing a difference in how many books sell at the lower prices, they will start bringing the prices down. Of course, this is mostly for backlist titles - I doubt this would apply for first-run wildly popular stuff.