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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Perhaps from a fellow-author perspective it makes sense to say a book that originally sold at a $0.00 price point is less of a purchase, or morally less deserving to be one, than a book that sold for a higher price point (one which put money in the bank) -- but I consider it a totally warped perspective nonetheless.
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I'm not sure what you're saying here. If someone is without the book (free or not) the problem is more likely to be because B&N no longer makes it downloadable. I agree that B&N and other retailers should continue to make the book available to those who purchased it (Free or otherwise). What I was trying to say is that if the author decided that FUTURE purchasers could only have book one or book one and two for free, that shouldn't be a problem. It's no different than changing the price from a sale.
But if a person bought it, the onus is on the RETAILER to make sure it stays available for those who purchased it (because we, the authors, can't control that aspect).
I don't see the ethical problem with changing the book price for new purchasers. I do see an issue of confusion if the reviews talk about 3 books and there are only 2 books, but again, there are technical reasons for not just pulling a book and relisting under different titles. The problem is that we flat our aren't allowed to do that. And changing the title causes even more problems and confusion anyway.
Even Smashwords has a policy of not "publishing" the same book twice. There are multiple issues with doing so--and several authors decided to publish rather than update--because it gets them more visibility (front page of smashwords for x amount of time and so on).