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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Who are you to suggest that I don't vote with my wallet? Guess what? I don't support big publishers, because I rather spend it on books I like to read and don't mind paying for.
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Get off your high horse, I said no such thing. Geeze, for a forum about reading, there sure are a lot of people who have trouble doing it. If you vote with your dollars by not buying books from publishers, then why should they care what you think? You aren't a customer to them and quite likely will never be.
When I buy a car, I look for the best car I can find at a certain price point. A car is something that gets me from point A to point B and as long as I have a car that can do that reliably and has the small number of features I care about, I don't care about the model. Nothing wrong with that, I'm just not a car person. I have zero loyalty to a specific car manufacturer.
The flip side of that is that I don't expect high end car manufactures to play the slightest amount of attention to what I want and I don't go on and on about how over priced that cars are and how they are ripping off their customers just because I'm not willing to shell out the money to buy a high end car.
There are a lot of people out there quite willing to spend big bucks for a Tesla, or a BMW and they quite likely get good value out of their dollar. It's a choice. They probably get a better quality car than I get in a number of measurable areas - faster, quieter, more features. I'm fine with that. I don't feel the need to tear down Tesla or BMW just because I drive a Honda.