[Timboli]

@HarryT - I agree in part with what you said, but my topic is about more than that. It's not really the same old same old, but inevitably covers much the same ground in parts.

Lucky you with Dick Francis etc. Likewise, I also buy reasonably priced ebooks, even brand new ones. C.J. Box is the perfect example of a best seller selling at fair prices, as is Terry Goodkind and Val McDermid and a host of others.

As has been said, it is often down to where you live and where the author calls home ground, to how fair prices can be.

AUS is a very affluent country, but it isn't America, so the prices often reflect that. AUS is also full of middle class fools who have no sense when it comes to money, and often that is why stuff is much higher priced here than it should be. The poorer classes of course are always the ones impacted in the throwaway mentality society.

Anyway I have given up expecting the bad publishers to do the right thing. But I am interested, very much so, in their anticipated fate. Unfortunately, they are likely to take some damn good authors down with them, who are locked into long contracts, and don't appear to have much say. The possibility of that makes me sad and worried indeed. I also worry about how their writing is being impacted by the state of things.