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Originally Posted by Studio717
I have no doubt that the screwy pricing of ebooks needs to be dealt with, but I can't see where punishing authors by not buying their books helps anyone. The publisher is just going to look and say, "Author A's numbers are down, don't buy another book from him/her."
Personally, I'd think a blogging campaign would do more good.
(And, usually, the ebook royalty rate is separate from the p-book royalty rate, both negotiated separately.)
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I cannot tell the difference between the publisher and the author. As far as I am concerned they are one in the same as the author has signed up with the publisher. I have mailed on author and still have not received a reply from them. In some postings, the authors claim that the publishers are not responsive to their emails.
I expect that my Kindle ebooks to cost less than any new DTB. I had a conversation with a publishing industry person on the train one morning back in January. She was proofreading on a Sony unit and I had my Kindle open. Somewhere during the conversation we got on to the topic of pricing. Her stance and that of much of the major publishers was that I am paying for content, how I choose to read it was my business, but the I was paying for the content. I disagree.