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Originally Posted by starrigger
You make it sound like it's our God-given right to have ebooks, and at a price we approve of. Hard to imagine a better way to make the more conservative publishers dig in their heels and say, "Screw 'em, they're all a bunch of pirates, anyway."
A more constructive approach might be to get people to write in to the publishers and say, "Hey, I really want to buy the latest Joe Gonzo in my [reader of choice] format! Why can't I find it? Or why is it priced so high?" Enough of those emails, and those who aren't already taking it seriously might start to. Don't expect results the next day, but keep after them.
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That's the one thing I
won't do, beg. In a capitalistic system, you make money by providing what the customer wants. You don't yawn behind your hand and tell the customer, "go away kid, you bother me". If they don't want to make money by selling me the product I want, I guaranteed they won't make money selling me something I refuse to buy because that's what they want to sell me. Between Project Gutenberg and used books, I don't have to buy a new book for the rest of my reading life, neither of which are pirating books. If they are so disconnected from the market, they deserve to Epic Fail.
I don't want this to happen, but not to the point of bowing and scraping and begging the publishing industry to
please sell me what I want to buy...