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Originally Posted by Soldim
I do care for the authors and understand they want to sell books for a reasonable price. If they set a reasonable prince, generally decided together with their publisher, you really think they object to someone buying their books for that price?
Personally, I strongly doubt any author prefers me to download their books as you advocate.
Authors and publishers are free to set different prices for different markets -- and I am free to choose the market where I buy a book.
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The author has no say in the price set when the deal is done with a traditional publishers. None. Several authors have tried to talk their publisher into doing sales and such and most of them aren't given the time of day.
As for caring about the author and assuming others buy the books, even with the prices for trad books, I can name three authors off the top of my head--wonderful and good authors--who had to stop writing to earn a living a different way. The average midlist authors (ones you find in the bookstores that are not best sellers) do not make enough money to earn a living.
There was an article on Galleycat yesterday where two authors were interviewed. They are doing well now, but that was not always the case. It's hard to make it in any business, but writing and other arts are about as difficult as it gets.