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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I think that writers that I enjoy reading should be able to make a good living writing. That way they will write more books for me to read.
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This point -- about writing more books -- I don't see -- especially as concerns fiction. And I'm a little surprised your critics don't pounce on it. |
Why pounce on the obvious? If I do not agree with the way to reach a certain goal, but I share a certain goal, then why would I complain about sharing the same goal? The only way that makes sense is to admit that I share the same goal, but that I have a complete different opinion in how to reach it and even why the goal is there. Let me drag it out a little bit further:
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I'm perfectly willing to pay hardback prices to support authors that I like to read. I do not view books as generic product and that one author/book is as good as another.
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This is a short quote out of a rather long post. That post is basically the endresult of a
heated rather long exchange between pwalker8 and me. If you have not followed it closely it basically boiled down to pwalker8 making a blanket statement (I as consumer want higher prices for ebooks). That, imo, did not make any sense at all. Out of context that is. So we kept pushing the issue. In the end it is a rather simple "supply and demand" kind of thing. It satisfied my own personal curiosity, and I did not feel the need to push further. So I ended up posting this:
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
That I can understand and is reasonable. I personally do not share the same opinion about it as you do, but how boring would life be if everybody had the same opinion. |
What I should have replied instead was pointing out in detail what I agreed with and what I didn't. But I did not want to start an ugly fight about difference in opinion which has been clearly established earlier in the thread as: we agree to disagree on certain issues. So I completely forgot to mention in my post that I am also willing to pay whatever price I have to for a product (specific ebook written by a specific author) that I want bad enough. I also do not want to jeopardize any future books by same author I enjoy. Simple supply and demand. Where I disagree on is the means to do so. Pwalker8 believes that reaching the goal is best done by enforced higher prices. While I only agree to pay higher prices when my demand to have my favorite book right now is higher than the limited supply (none) of this book being acceptable priced (for me). Any other book that is priced that high is being ignored by me.