I'm probably missing something simple here, but, if a publisher is doing something specifically aggravating, as in this case, wouldn't you need to let BOTH the publisher and author know of your intentions?
Just not buying or never buying again, or whatever is fine, but not nearly (I'd hope) as effective as making sure the author KNOWS he or she is losing revenue because of a policy put in place by the publisher they selected? In this case he may not care, but getting a few hundred, or better a few thousand emails from furious former purchasers would seen likely to cause at least some discussion between the author and publisher. Or perhaps I'm hopelessly naive that either party would care enough to actually make a change...
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