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Originally Posted by nogle
It is still very simple. Refrain from buying ebooks until the industry complies with your economics.
How they manage their costs and profitability is of no concern to you. Buy books when D>P.
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That's what I'm doing. I don't buy Agency 6 ebooks at all. That doesn't mean it's somehow immoral for me to grumble about their business decisions; I'd like for them to produce books I could enjoy spending money on, and teach my kids to spend money on in the future.
Shrug. I don't have a problem with "they don't want my business;" I'm not running out of things to read. I have some inchoate worries about the future of publishing, because it does look like the formerly biggest players are being squeezed and they're not coping well with that, but I'm not worried about the future running out of books, or authors being unable to make a living at their craft, or anything similar.
It's not like *fewer* authors are able to make a living writing now, with all the piracy and freebies on the internet, than were able to in 1975.
Still, I don't feel any obligation to shut up about mainstream publishers being stupid--"it's raining soup, and you bring teaspoons instead of buckets; WTF are you thinking?"