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Originally Posted by crossi
I don't know about fair. For me it's more about what I'm willing to pay. ....
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Of course it does come down, like you said, to what we are willing to pay, and I certainly have some limits, as do most people I know.
I am happy to up those limits if authors or publishers state a good case, and show real transparency.
I am not someone who goes out looking for the lowest price ever. I am more interested at this stage in my life, at paying what is fair.
I have a program that checks items on my wishlist, and when an ebook gets to a price I find fair, I usually purchase. Now that is tempered by how I feel about some authors, and whether I follow them or not. So I am happier to pay a bit more for what I consider a likely sure winner, as opposed to an author I am feeling like trying out. That bit more though, still needs to be in that fair range.
There are other factors too, that impact what the fair range might be. Like how good their last book was and what the average price for their other books is (if that is much less), and how new the release is, etc.
Fair price for me, also draws upon what I know about a writer. So how good their work is generally and the effort and time put in. So a well done thick novel that took a few years to write, certainly qualifies in my mind for a higher fair price. If they had decided to split their book in two, as sometimes happens, I would usually end up paying more anyway.