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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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Well, no one is insulting you because you don't buy expensive cars. But in this thread people who don't buy books at hardcover prices were called cheapskates and skinflints. And you wonder why people are upset?
And no, it's not a question of priority. If a person buys over a hundred books a year, then they generally cannot afford to buy those books at the highest price point, unless they're wealthy (and few people are). And why should they buy fewer books for higher prices?