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Originally Posted by issybird
I honestly don't knew what getting away with it means. The publisher is trying to maximize revenues (there may be ancillary goals also, but that's the main one). Getting away with it means that people are buying at that price! So how can you say it's too high?
No one is owed a specific book at a specific price, no matter what other books in the series cost, what comparable books cost, or what the book itself used to cost.
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Exactly.
The proper response to prices you don't like is to walk away.
If enough people do it then the publisher will notice.
If enough people don't walk away and they keep on buying the books at those prices then, yes, "they'll get away with it".
The whole point of being in business is to make as much money as possible; some (Amazon, many Indies) believe in maximizing total revenue while others (like the BPHs) believe in maximizing per unit revenue.
It is up to consumers to vote their wallets in support of the strategy they favor.