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Originally Posted by Barty
I read this a lot, but I don't get what the publishers were supposed to have learned from the music industry. That people will take things for free? That once they are used to getting it for free, they will want to pay little for it even if you make it super convenient to acquire? Ok, true enough, but what were they supposed to DO? Go gentle into that good night? Accept their inevitable decline and irrelevance? Beseech the Amazon God to have mercy on them?
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Well for starters they could have read one of their own books.
http://www.amazon.com/Appetite-Self-...sap_bc?ie=UTF8
I can pick up a used hard cover for $0.01 or a new hard cover for $3.85 but the Kindle Edition will cost me $14.09 "price set by the publisher". But the good news is I'd be saving 22% off the list price.
