My biggest problem is with publishers who are not pricing their books for the market. Penguin, for instance, regularly prices it's ebooks at $2-3 above the paperback price and is very slow to bring prices down. I have a waiting list of about 5 Penguin authors whose ebooks are hugely overpriced. While I'm waiting for them to bring their prices down to market value, I will be buying books from other publishers who have reasonable ebook prices. Amazon is much more attentive to market prices than the publishers who tend to respond to ebooks prices with a "set it and forget it" model.
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