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dhbailey · 10-26-2008, 04:41 PM

I don't understand what you're suggesting -- we don't all buy books in the same format, nor do we all buy them from the same place, so the free market is working (to a point) and there are various prices for you to buy what you want from. Buy the cheapest and have done with it.

Nor would we all agree what the "popular titles" would be, so it would be very hard to get everybody to come to a consensus. For instance, I haven't the least interest in the price of the book you mention because it's not what I read. You might not have much interest in dunning Martha Grimes for me until she agrees to allow ebook publication of the Richard Jury books.

I think better is that where any of us have complaints, we each make them to the publisher, the author and to the web-site where we don't like the prices we see. A multi-faceted attack is the best one to convince the powers that be that we really are a large and diverse and growing marketplace.

I think that can be best achieved by many individual requests, not by a single monolithic request by a group, since we don't know how large a group of people they would actually respond positively to. When we each contact them on our own, they can't know how many we are and can only assume that the vocal members are a smaller subset of a larger potential audience.

10-26-2008, 04:41 PM	#2
dhbailey Guru Posts: 604 Karma: 733 Join Date: Mar 2007 Device: HP iPAQ211 / PRS 500, 700 and 505	I don't understand what you're suggesting -- we don't all buy books in the same format, nor do we all buy them from the same place, so the free market is working (to a point) and there are various prices for you to buy what you want from. Buy the cheapest and have done with it. Nor would we all agree what the "popular titles" would be, so it would be very hard to get everybody to come to a consensus. For instance, I haven't the least interest in the price of the book you mention because it's not what I read. You might not have much interest in dunning Martha Grimes for me until she agrees to allow ebook publication of the Richard Jury books. I think better is that where any of us have complaints, we each make them to the publisher, the author and to the web-site where we don't like the prices we see. A multi-faceted attack is the best one to convince the powers that be that we really are a large and diverse and growing marketplace. I think that can be best achieved by many individual requests, not by a single monolithic request by a group, since we don't know how large a group of people they would actually respond positively to. When we each contact them on our own, they can't know how many we are and can only assume that the vocal members are a smaller subset of a larger potential audience.