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Originally Posted by Apache
Or a retailer. I am a retailer. I will not let anyone else dictate what price I can set my merchandise. If it is priced to high I will have trouble selling it in a timely manner and that can cost me sales. Turn around time is very important in retail. If I price it to low I may sell it faster, but my ROI will not be high enough to pay my bills let alone make a profit. The Free Market Place means just that. I am free to set what ever price I want and you are free to buy or not buy it.
With the ability to access books for free via a library, I do not understand why Timboli feels that he is being defrauded.
Apache
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I'm with you, Apache. Of course, as fellow biz owners and entrepreneurs, we usually tend to agree. I'd LOVE to see what Timboli thinks about how I should be setting my prices to be "fair." Fair to whom, exactly?
Fair to the would-be self-publisher, that wants to pay the least possible, to publish his/her books looking like a trade-pubbed book? Fair to my Crew, who count on me to keep their incomes coming, so that they can pay their rent, buy their food, feed their families?
Man, "fair" is really simple--apparently--if you don't have to think about any of that stuff. No doubt, the same is true for publishers--is it "fair" to price their books high enough so that they can subsidize the next risky book? Fair to price them enough so that they think they'll be in business for the next quarter, next fiscal period, long enough to pay their employees?
Sheesh.
Sorry, Timboli, I see that you think that everyone here is "ganging up" on you, and that's certainly not my intent, but you seem to be looking at this a bit one-dimensionally, if I may say so.
Hitch