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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I benefit as a reader if the publishers are, in the long run, better able to resist pressure from big retailers to lower the price of their product. This would enhance publisher ability to buy book proposals with advances high enough so authors can do a good job on the books I read.
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How do you know the higher prices are going to the authors? That is certainly not the way it has been with ebooks. If the money went directly to the authors, and there was a line item for publishing expenses (editing, cover art, etc.), then your argument makes sense. But the publishers are just propping up the price of hardcover books, and I doubt that authors got a huge raise when agency was instituted, or a huge pay cut when discounting was once again allowed.