Originally Posted by pwalker8
My take is that it started from the assertion that publishers were ripping off their customers by charging more that how much that particular poster felt was the right price for a book, and then leebase's response from that. I think that some people who prefer not to buy books, i.e. mostly go to the library, got their feelings hurt and some reacted to what they thought he really meant rather than what he actually said. There is also a bit of the instinctive indie verse publisher push back as well.
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