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"The lower e-book price “is not sustainable,” said Mr. Baldacci, whose novels regularly rise to the top of hardcover best seller lists. If readers insist on cut-rate electronic books, he said, “unfortunately there won’t be anyone selling it anymore because you just can’t make any money.”"
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Oh, PLEAHHHHHHHHSE, Mr "Greed" Baldacci - PLEAHHHHSE.
It's one thing that this attempt to push the boycotters back hard is more than pathetic but your argument is so false it is insulting all of us, readers.
Obviously you're full of it, arrogant scribbler and, similarly to big names in music, you cannot wrap your money-driven mind around the fact that it's
over for you or anyone else in the food chain - it's our turn, we will set the price, pal and if you don't like it then time to look for a new career...
Nobody will cry and ten other will take your place happily - after all you're not Orwell or Dostojevski, you won't leave too big of a whole behind...
You just can't make money... yeah sure, because you are apparently
overpaid a bit compared to market realities.
The
printed market is in decline and it will be accelerated by the spread of ebook readers.
Mark my words:
you will sharply lower your expectations or won't get a freakin' dime pretty soon because the very moment when Amazon built up its multi-million Kindle market and had enough of your kind's whining it will either cut your payment at least down to half ($7) to make some money on your pieces or - if you reject it - cut you loose and pull all your books immediately. Then you can go whenever you want, a writer pulled from Amazon won't make big noise anymore.
PS: I use to write for fun (on my mother tongue
) - despite repeated offers I chose to never publish anything due to various reasons - and I never quite understood these "professional" scribblers: churning out multiple books per year obviously means lower quality yet they want to see more and more money per copies? If someone sells 50k copies a year - not impossible for a popular book when 5k in a month puts you on the NYT Bestseller List - that's well over half a million bucks with $14/copy... this is the level of Wall St people...
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just WTF is wrong with this spoiled-whining "bestseller-author", seriously?