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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Funny... I have that problem with big publisher's books...
At any rate, it's always good to know how unwelcome my efforts are.
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I buy on recommendation. I don't troll through the publishers works either.
When the quality of independent authors improves I will happily buy from independent authors. The ones I have tried have not been at a level that I am willing to pay for them. You are lucky because there are a good number of people who are happy with what they get for the price and it appears that many independent authors are doing reasonably well.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
Then don't buy them. If Hachette overpriced its books, then its books won't sell and it will go out of business. If that doesn't happen, well Hachette will have been proven to have made the correct business decision .
You can always get something for nothing, if you are willing to break the law. Civilized, law abiding people understand that.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
The very fact that there is a huge and growing demand for devices dedicated to the reading of ebooks undercuts the argument that agency pricing is depressing the market for ebooks. The fact that the ebook bestseller lists are populated with agency priced ebooks pretty much finishes off the argument altogether.
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No, the very fact that there is a huge and growing demand for the readers is making it hard to see how angry folks are with e-book prices because new users only know this pricing system. They don't know that at one point in time Amazon was selling most bestsellers for $9.99. They don't know how the market changed when IBooks came out. They probably accept it because, well that is what it is.
Most best sellers are priced about the same for a hardback and the e-book version so it is no surprised that they are bestsellers in both formats. I have a feeling that if best sellers were more expensive in e-book form then there is a decent size crowd that would buy the hardback.
I know I have bought fewer books since the change in pricing schemes. I had a long enough backlist that it didn't matter to me. I have picked up some new books by authors that I really like and some that have been recommended. My Mother is on my account and is a part of a couple of reading groups. She buys her books for those groups and I'll read them so we have something to discuss. She has told me that there are plenty of times she just takes the book out of the library because it is priced to high for her Kindle.