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Old 12-18-2011, 07:50 PM   #86
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I'm with you, Daithi. My auto buy list is half as long as it was before agency pricing. I also have actively looked for (and found) more indie publishers and authors. Agency pricing on top of DRM just seems like adding insult to injury.
There is simply no justification at all for the proposition that ebook prices must always be lower than the lowest pbook price, irregardless of the author , whether new or used, or date of publication . That's just wrong from any POV. This writer put it best:


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Some readers want prices to go down from $10 to $1. Yet they still want Stephen King and Pat Conroy level books. This is the second biggest threat to the future of books.
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