@leebase. Though I am not personally offended, I can see how many people would be. To all your other potentially offensive imputations you have now added the idea that people who can afford to but do not pay absolutely top price for a book are not responsible adults, and are essentially sponging off those who do. It is as if you have ignored the whole conversation whilst endlessly repeating your mindless mantra based on the fallacy that paying top price acts by some mysterious way as an incentive for authors to write more books. It is irrelevant whether you regard books as widgets or art. They are sold in the course of commerce, and their price varies. The strongest your argument that you should pay the highest price you can afford gets is that it may make a book slightly more profitable to the publisher and enhance the authors chance of being published again in the future. If you read fjtorres post #693 again, you will see that even this is not true. Typically the publisher will receive the same amount, with the retailer bearing the costs of any discounts.
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The publisher negotiates a fixed price with the distributor and that is *all* they see. Pay cover price, 10%, 30%, 45% off? Makes no difference to the publisher. The difference between 10% and 45% is no difference to them. Or the author.
The discount comes from the retailer's pocket, not the publisher's.
Not the author's.
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