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Originally Posted by elcreative
I wasn't the one who said I was "very happy" - now it's not one or the other but it's a little difficult being very happy and unhappy at the same time!!!
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I didn't say you were
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Can you tell me why, if everybody is so happy with
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the likewise in my reply was referring to all those who are happy with or "like the poster you were responding to, I'm also happy about..."
True you can't be happy and unhappy at the exact same time, but then I never said that. I said disgruntled as in annoyed, angry, not satisfied (I'd lean more to not satisfied than angry though, I find it hard to be angry over pricing when there's alternatives, I just don't buy it). However, even if I had said unhappy, you could have just taken it to mean, happy that you can buy a cheap good book, then unhappy that when you want a book by an author you like who's agency priced, it's more than you're willing to pay, but happy again as you find more cheap books from new authors to read.
There's going to be a transition period where those of us who read main stream a lot will be less than pleased with agency pricing, yet won't have made a 100% shift to indie books and hence will occasionally feel disgruntled/whatever about the agency prices. In time some may make a 100% transition after finding a sufficient number of indie authors that they no longer want books by any agency authors, but until then, there's going to be conflicting feelings on the issue.
Either way, what I said was, disgruntled about agency pricing, as in, not satisfied by the prices and I didn't say I felt the two at the same time. Think of it more as a see-saw feeling
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but they keep saying how happy they are and at the same time moaning about higher priced books... when I'm happy about something, i don't give a ***** about other things because I'm happy... got it!!
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I can be "happy" that I've got a job and yet unhappy about the job I've got. As to which you feel would depend on the angle you're looking from at that particular point in time.
When you're talking to people who earn more, you might feel unhappy about your own earnings, when you're talking to people who have no job, you might feel happy that you've actually got one.
I see nothing wrong with people been happy to buy/read indie books but still wish they could read some of the authors that are on agency pricing.
Saying you're happy with something doesn't always mean you'd never want anything more.