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Originally Posted by ApK
But more often, people "need" a PARTICULAR book. If I'm assigned a book at school or work, I can't say "it was too expensive, I'll read something else." Or you REALLY want to finish the cliff hanger of the in the 10th book of the series!
I get it's not GUNPOINT, but it is various forms of legitimate pressure that may make you shell out more than you really think it's worth. If you feel the price is unjustly high (even allowing for free market capitalism), it's perfectly legitimate to push for better prices in ways other than merely not buying.
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All quite true. Thanks. It just has nothing to do with those claiming that the price of ebooks has
increased because publishers/sellers did not pass on their reduced VAT savings to their customers.
My beef in this thread has been twofold:
1) the "newsworthy" argument of companies not passing on savings to customers (** yawn **)
2) the inaccurate claim that ebooks prices have increased because they weren't decreased.
I have no problem with people
wanting ebooks to be cheaper. I have no problem with people wishing all companies passed their windfalls onto their customers in the form of reduced product prices. I only have a problem with claiming that such business practices are newsworthy, and with claiming that 3.99 (with the publisher paying 20% VAT) yesterday, is somehow more money for a customer to pay than 3.99 (with the publisher NOT paying 20% VAT) today. As some (not all) are doing.