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Originally Posted by elcreative
So just because you aren't a collector then nobody else is allowed to be... lovely attitude and too typical of a certain section of contributors on this forum... commonly known as "dog in the manger" or "if I can't have it/don't want it then no-one else can or should be allowed to..."
If you're so desperate for a "collectible" then pay the price, if you're not (and/or consider the price outrageous" then don't buy, get something else but for crying out aloud - STOP whinging about authors' rights to supply customers with what they want, collectibles and then meet a more general market as something you consider more suitably priced/produced to meet your needs... it's their right to do this, they created the work...
And as an aside... limited editions produce a nice bonus income for an author and do NOT affect mass market sales as most readers never come across the limited edition or just ignore it...
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$50 x 500 copies = $25,000, of which the writer will only get 25%. They won't get anything from the $100+ prices readers will need to pay on Ebay/Amazon because all the preorders went to dealers.
An ebook and/or mass market edition alongside the speculator edition would keep everyone happy. The only reason I can think of not to do that would be to force people who can't really afford it to buy the speculator edition. Not the best way to treat your fans, if you ask me. And certainly not the best way to minimise piracy.