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Originally Posted by pwalker8
As a customer, you get to decide what business model suits your buying needs. The thing is, there is nothing moral involved. Publishers aren't evil because they want to charge more than a given book buyer wants to pay, and book buyers aren't cheapskates because they are only willing to pay a certain price for any book. It's a choice and like most choices it has certain ramifications. I would say that it is disingenuous to have a specific buying model and complain because it doesn't produce the books you want.
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I agree with this, and btw I personally haven't complained about prices or evil publishers. Book prices are really pretty affordable, in my opinion. There are plenty of books under my personal price limit, even new books, and I don't mind waiting for those that are released with a higher price.
Of course I'm speaking as a customer in Europe. From what I've read here on MR, books are much more expensive in Australia, for example. That's probably perceived as an injustice by many Australian customers, because they're an English-speaking market and books in English are cheaper in the UK and US.
Books are very expensive in my native language too, but that's understandable, as the Estonian-speaking market is exceedingly small. Still, the price difference with locally published books is the main reason I buy most of my fiction in English, so I can sympathize with those who complain about high local prices.