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Originally Posted by HarryT
The publisher has a "right" to set whatever price they wish for their product.
You have the "right" as a consumer, to choose to buy or not to buy at that price.
You do not, with the greatest respect, have the right to "dictate" to the publisher what price they "should" sell their product at. At the end of the day, the market will determine what the appropriate price is.
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Is it "dictating" by asking other consumers to band together and refuse to pay more than $9.99? Personally, I think this is just as reasonable as an individual consumer making the choice not to buy at a certain price. Or a consumer deciding to follow the boycott or not.
So that author that needs to make $20,000 for six months work (extremely reasonable) might decide to not publish -- unless he decides that his work will appeal to a larger audience. 35% of $9.99 is about $3.50, so he'd need to sell 5715 books to make his target paycheck.
Personally, I don't have a problem with someone trying to organize a boycott based on Price or DRM (although I doubt I'd sign on to either).