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Originally Posted by R J Askew
Surely there has to be a price for content, well, quality content at least, otherwise how wld the creators of said content pay for their espressos? Your artist has to live. That said, I am glad that prices have tumbled because the large publishing houses have had their day.
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The problem with all of these claims of publishers getting it wrong is that publishers are doing very well by e-books. Big publishers' sales *tripled* in the year after agency pricing was put into effect, and e-books are accounting for an important part of their profits (they are still only 10% or so of the US market, but that's a decent chunk).
So far there is no evidence that cheaper indie books are hurting publishers at all.