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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
i could go on an on with this wall o' text but the point being that there are a thousand and one reasons why the ebook is not available legitimately to you now. pricing is a mix of [how much it cost to make] + [how much we'd like to profit] + [how much the retail market will bear] no one is thinking "lets price this so that this group over here cant afford to buy it" . they are thinking "if i price it that low ill lose money".
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None of that explains authors telling fans "DON'T READ MY BOOK UNLESS YOU BOUGHT IT."
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but thats one of the reasons lending libraries exist. if you cant afford to buy books, the community has a collection available to lend free to anyone.
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4 of the 6 agency publishers don't put ebooks in libraries at all; one of them only rents them for a few check-outs.
Again, we're back to, "I only want readers who buy my books under my choice of marketing conditions." Which is fine; authors are free to decide they don't want non-paying fans. I'm kinda baffled about how they think they'll gain new fans that way, but they're certainly allowed to only want direct customers reading their books.
And yes, it's not like there's any shortage of high-quality free and low-cost ebooks available, so I'm not missing out on reading by avoiding authors who only sell DRM'd ebooks; Australian readers are not lacking for reading material by skipping "bestseller" ebooks that aren't sold at all in their country.
I'm just surprised at the number of struggling authors who apparently want their fanbase limited to the size of their direct customer base.