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If you care, buy the book at the price asked. That’s how YOU pay authors (or send them money in the mail if you’d like).
It’s no business of yours how THEY make their books or the details of the relationship hey have with publishers.
If they ask more for the book than you want to pay. Don’t buy it. If you really want to read the book...buy it, or check it out from the library.
But nowhere does it matter “what’s fair”. I don’t buy luxury cars....I admire them. I’d like to have one. But not at the price they ask. Is that fair? Fairness doesn’t enter into the equation. I buy the car I can afford. Actually, I buy a car at less than I can afford because I’d rather spend my money on other things than the most expensive car I could possibly buy.
Some technical books cost more than I want to pay. So I don’t buy them. The price might well be quite fair given the effort to write vs the small market being served. It might be unfair that an author spent so much effort to write a book and people like me who would benefit....don’t buy the book. But fairness never enters in the book writing or buying decision.
The book has a price. I decide to buy or not buy. That’s commerce.
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