Thread: Kindlers Boycott $10+ ebooks
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Old 04-04-2009, 08:09 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
The only books I'm personally 'boycotting' right now are the books where the publisher is charging more than the pbook.

Harper Collins for example has taken to charging $14.99 for some ebooks while the paper version is $7.99 IMO that's ridiculous and I'd love to know what they're thinking.
Some academic digital books are more than triple the price of the paperback version. I found one where the paperback version cost $30 and the digital version cost $100. Ridiculous yes.

I wouldn't call it a boycott though. This is totally mis-appropriating a term that is political and socially critical in nature and applying it to a practice that is not actually thought out that politically or critically. We shouldn't call it boycott when the act is merely the same as visiting a grocery story and seeing a jar of jam is too expensive for our budgets so we leave the jar of jam on the shelf instead of buying it. That's not boycotting.
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