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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If you already have your bookshelves sorted to accommodate MMPBs, then adding in TPs will not do. Some people do not buy HCs and didn't have a problem until TPs.
Sure most bookshelves can be adjusted, but what do you with the books that no longer fit? Maybe the publishers got together with the bookshelf makers to be able to sell more bookcases and be able to raiise the price of books.
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No point in being silly just for the sake of being silly.
If we’re going back to the dawn of time, it seems to me that MMPBs were originally intended to be disposable. Pocket-sized, cheaply made, and inexpensive. Whyever would bookshelves be designed to accommodate a throwaway? That you want to keep and display them has no bearing on the “proper” size of bookshelves. To argue along your lines. The reality is that something’s got to give. Most people make do. This is not a hill to die on.
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Apple and the price fix six colluded on eBook prices and the Justice Department majorly botch the outcome of the trial. The punishment should have been to not allow agency ever. But since the publishers can set the eBook price based on the current pBook, TPs became the norm since the price was able to be raised and thus, eBook prices raised as well.
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I think your timeline is in serious need of adjustment, frankly. As well as your sense of cause and effect. TPs came long before ebooks. And seriously, the price relationship between the two is at most tangential reflecting the extent a buyer is willing to substitute one for the other.
I’ll say it one more time. Ebook prices reflect what the publisher can get for them. They don’t have to jump through such torturous hoops to justify prices.