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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I didn't actually mean your posts by saying people were insulted, but another poster's, who said right out that he's never met so many skinflints as on this forum. As most people here buy far more books than an average reader does, it's only natural they're not willing to pay hardcover prices.
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That's me. And it shouldn't be hard to accept. For a forum that's populated almost solely by book lovers....a huge amount of the talk is about books costing too much or how to find them for free or the glories of cheap Indie books.
It just doesn't SOUND like a forum of people who love AUTHORS, who create the books.
And I excluded from my "skinflint" list, those who can do no better. The are still free riders...but, you can't do what you can't do. And I've admitted how I too am a free rider on some/many things.
And while it's obviously an opinion, it sprang from the odious claim that people buying new release books at new release prices were dupes and idiots (paraphrased because I'm too lazy to search)