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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Loyal Amazon marketeers likely want to increase the amount you pay for eBooks by getting you to buy more books. As far as I can tell, they don't worry themselves about the quality of the books, or even if they are long enough to be more than a short story.
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Whether to purchase more books or not is my decision, not Amazon's. Amazon, however, is trying to push the price of each book I do buy lower. Of course they are going to try to make it easy for me to buy more books, so are the publishers (except if you've seen their websites). If I can buy two BPH books under Amazon's preferred pricing scheme, versus one BPH book under agency, then I'm better off.
And the publishers aren't concerned about the quality of the ebooks they are selling. Just finished a BPH published ebook that was riddled with scan errors, typos, character name changes (!), and other indications of publisher that doesn't care, at all, about the reader/purchaser. Doesn't even care enough to proof-read the ebook, which, in theory, is one of the most basic tasks that a publisher should perform.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Big publishers are trying to come up with books you and I want to read. That's in my interest as as a library borrower and used book buyer, just as it is in your interest as a buyer of current eBooks.
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Ok. That's the publisher's role.
Actually, Big publishers are trying to come up with books that you and I want to buy.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
And one -- the big publishers -- seems to be a whole lot more concerned than the other over whether the books they publish will be greatly liked by readers.
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Sorry, I was talking about the price of the books I've decided to purchase. While I appreciate the publishers looking out for my interest, at least as far a producing likeable books, they aren't looking out for my interest as much as Amazon is. Especially when it comes to pricing. Besides, it's pointless to have a likeable book that priced too high.