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Originally Posted by haertig
That's definitely true for me. I don't buy hardbacks. I don't buy the first edition paperbacks (I forgot the name they call these). I wait for the "Mass Market" paperbacks. And then, only once they've been out for a while and I can buy them used. There are so many books out there, that I never need to obtain a book when it's brand new and super expensive.
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Smart marketing strategy is to get the most revenue from people willing to pay top dollar, and get some additional revenue from those who are not.
As for used, just as you give price support to Toyota Motor Corp. if you buy a used Civic, you support the price of the hardback when you buy the cheapest copy seen at bookfinder.com.
Allowing purchasers to pay what they can afford isn't a pricing bug, but a socially positive pricing feature.
Piracy -- now that is a bug. While it never will go away completely, it looks to me that Ms. Stiefvater has invented a good way to reduce it.
Few of us can afford to drive the world's best cars, but everyone (except in countries lacking either freedom to read or good libraries) can afford the world's best books. This should be celebrated.
The people to complain about are the university publishers, and Amazon, whose most popular eBooks are typically never made available to libraries at any price.