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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Seriously? You question why people would want to get something for free rather than pay for it? There is always a group of people who are focused on getting stuff as cheaply as possible. This is the core business model of places like Sam's Club and Costco. Where such businesses start to fail is when the quality of goods drops to a point where people no longer feel the goods are no longer a good buy.
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Obviously price matters. It is not even a question of why an Indie is able to price lower than a publishing house. When buying a book, the store matters, the service matters, the buying experience matters. Take the price out of the equation, there is no longer any need to shop around. There is now only the question: is this book worth the asking price to get it now and here, or go to the library and wait. More than likely you get your book checked out before the publisher decides to run any kind of sale.
Agency pricing does hurt when it is only applied to ebooks and not pbooks as well. If it were possible to enforce agency on pbook, do you honestly believe it would be in the best interest of publishers? If not, why is it okay to treat ebooks different.