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Originally Posted by cfrizz
This is on the money. People are not only waiting them out, they are actually turning to self published authors.
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Some of us are also turning to publishers like Open Road that are reissuing backlist gems at sensible prices (and also offering up a selection of discounted titles daily). I love Open Road, they've become my favorite publisher. Actually, "favorite publisher" was never a thing for me until now.
Then there's the library. I just started reading a series that's published by Roc (Penguin imprint). The book prices are sort of tiered based on age, so I bought the first three at prices I was willing to pay (9.99 or less), the others I'll check out from my library.
When publishers price books sensibly, I'll work with them. When they don't, I'll work around them by either waiting, using the library, or choosing a different book from a different publisher. I don't consider books to be fungible, but I generally don't know what makes a given book unique until
after I've read it, and by then the decision of what to buy has already been made. What some of the publishers are doing feels like the equivalent of holding one water source hostage behind a huge paywall, while trying to ignore the fact that all the potential customers have access to cheap or free water from a thousand other sources.