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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I really don't get this indignation over paying the market price for a book.
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Ah, but you see, *that* is exactly the point!
"Market price" for Weber's other, better, books is $6.
Weber's Honorverse, War God, and other works have long since sold at sub-paperback $6 for multiformat DRM-free ebooks. His Tor price-fixed and DRM'ed titles sell at Hardcover+ pricing. (And by all reports, at noticeably lower volumes.)
Just because the publisher demands a price doesn't make it "market" price. Especially when the price is fixed (via collusion, in the US) and competitive market forces are blocked.
Here:
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl...market%20price
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•market price (the price at which buyers and sellers trade the item in an open marketplace)
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There is nothing *open* about price fixed markets; those are take it or leave it markets. Well, most of us can leave it quite easily.
Market prices are set via a supply-demand "conversation" between supplier and consumer and the Price Fix Six have blocked that "conversation" by forbidding discounting.
Some people are fine with that and, hey, it's their money.
Me, I chose not to buy anything--in print or e-book, from the six. So I read the library's copies when and if I can get them. No rush.
As I said, the books are readable but far from his best.
As to whether I can afford the price, it turns out I can; for one of his Baen releases I sprung for the $15 eArc without batting an eye: it got me the book three months early plus a copy of the "unedited" oopsie edition.
To the OP I restate my position: EMPIRE FROM THE ASHES is a more fun read that the Safehold series and it costs $6 for the full trilogy. The first volume is free by itself. He *really* wants you to read it.
