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Originally Posted by neilmarr
We should boycot retailers who play this game. We should NOT buy their ebooks. We should say: "Sod off -- this is not what the ebook ideal is about!"
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It has little or nothing to do with retailers. It has to do with publishers. Except that publishers don't really care about any kind of e-book ideal. To a for-profit publishing company,
ideal would mean as many people as possible paying as much as possible for as many of the company's titles as possible which are produced for as low a cost as possible.
Unfortunately, most publishers haven't figured out that selling reasonably priced e-books is an excellent formula for getting there. As a reader, it's easy to patronize the ones who have, or are at least on the right track, and avoid the ones who haven't.
Until an author you want to read signs with one of those other publishers. That's where your "e-book ideal" comes into play. You can either uphold your ideal and
not read it, or you can sell out and buy it anyway.