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Originally Posted by elcreative
Can you tell me why, if everybody is so happy with inexpensive indie published books, these happy people keep moaning about higher priced books. Surely they are irrelevant with the level of happiness gained from the cheaper books and can be comfortably ignored as they are not essential items after all...  |
It was the price of mainstream e-books that had put the idea in my head to search for other resources. I never would have discovered them otherwise. Prices are reasonable, the author gets their cut, and everybody is happy.
I too, would love to see the price of non-public domain favorites go down too, though. It's only logical that an infinitely reproducible file be the cost of such and more customers would be attracted, like they are starting to be with some self-published writers. I too, don't see any point in moaning about it, but it is worth it to acknowledge why people are not buying mainstream published books as much.
Price is a big draw for me. I have to either be able to afford it or access it at the library, and because a book is a
recreation for me, if I can't afford it, well, no biggy. Some publishers just don't want regular folk as customers
There
are some library reads I wish I could afford, but I cannot, so the library is where I'll get them, if I don't ignore them altogether.
Edited to add,
DRM-free is also a big thing for me but that is another issue. I love books that I can load onto Calibre and tweak the formatting to my personal preferences. I have actually *bought* copies of some DRM books that were so poorly made, Why pay so much money for a non-editable file when I can go to project Gutenberg and get a good classic that I can design covers to my hearts content and change some of the .css?