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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If their reading aims are "more books available in my current budget," it wouldn't. The solution of "they should check several different websites and subscribe to feeds that offer occasional discounts and also should track all their favorite authors and get on publishers' mailing lists in order to maybe catch the book at a low enough price" is for people with time to burn.
If publishers don't like to hear the griping over ebook prices they can lower prices. If not, publishers can cope with the fact that, whether or not there's enough profit, if a good portion of the public is unhappy with the prices, they'll talk about it.
There's nothing immoral about pointing out that some companies are greedy. And while people have the option of just not doing business with the companies they think are too greedy--they also have the option of complaining, whether or not they choose to do business with those companies. There is no moral imperative to be quiet about what we find upsetting, just because not everyone agrees.
(I found my simple way of dealing with overpriced books. Novels that cost more than $6? Not on my radar at all. When I run out of less expensive reading material, I'll reconsider. 4 days ago, 2500+ new free stories went live on AO3. It'll be a while.)
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I'm sorry, but my strategy is no more time consuming than your strategy of going around various fanfic and indie sites and subscribing to Baen's webscriptions. The point is that it is rather easy to find all the cheap reads you want these days,without complaining and without breaking the law. If youwant to complain, by all means go ahead. It does get tiresome, though.