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Originally Posted by darryl
Firstly, not hardbacks particularly. Paper Books in general. And I can even point you to evidence of Big 5 executives in a Court Judgement. But of course I don't have to. I'm sure you know the case. And yes, this was before the current epidemic of agency, but the actions of the Big 5 have been perfectly consistent with this goal.
Then I am afraid you are not listening. We are on Mobileread. I am a reader. I imagine everyone on here is a reader, even those who are writers. I'm said this, and so have many others.
And yes, there are many whingers amongst authors, both independent and otherwise. And, being human, some will blame anything but themselves. Attacking the motives of one class of critics does not change the objective facts.
Is there an article you can link to which summarises your own views on what the Big 5 are doing and why? Why did they want agency? Why did they raise their prices so significantly when their new agency agreements started?
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I don't need an article to determine that the Big 5 is doing what they think is best to make money.
Now yes, some readers do whine about the high price of books, paper and ebooks.
But except for certain places, the average reader may complain about the high prices but they don't go around accusing the publisher of falsely inflating a price to get the customer to buy something else.
I have only heard that from a very small group of people.
Now can you link me any article where the people running the big 5 say that they are marking up ebooks so the consumer will buy a paper book.
And I mean someone that can actually make that decision, not a former employee.
As I understand agency, it just means the publisher not the distributor sets the price.
That is fair if the sales are based on a percentage.
I don't know what you do for a living but how would you like it if your boss decided he could just pay you whatever he thought was best.