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Originally Posted by sirbruce
I do too, but does such a price point exist for ebooks? We found it for music, but I'm not convinced it exists for ebooks. Authors don't have performance venues to supplement reduced royalties. There are many authors leaving the business *today* because they can't make enough money anymore, even though their writing is just as good as it used to be.
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Agreed, most of the authors don't get much money for their works and many of them do suffer from piracy. But piracy en masse is just one answer to a market which does ignore its consuments. Imho the publishing houses and distributors are actively creating the problem, not the authors. And the authors should be interested in a fair and functional market. Consumers and authors don't bring enough pressure to bear on the publishing houses and distributors at the moment. Hopefully this will change in the near future.