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Originally Posted by zacheryjensen
Personally I think books should cost MORE money. Especially good ones. I have to buy several copies of a good book before I feel I've sufficiently rewarded the author.
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Agreed 100%. Given that the price of a book, which can literally (sic) change your life, is of the same order as a takeaway pizza, the good ones are ludicrously under priced.
The trick is how to recognise the good ones up front - it could be argued that the p-book model of pay-then-read is what holds back the rewards for good writers. I'd like to see (but I can't see how it would really work) a model where you read a book and then paid what you thought was appropriate. I'm currently reading MR member Boyd Morrison's "The Ark", which I downloaded for free. It's a fantastically entertaining read, and I'd happily pay for reading it, but the system isn't set up that way. (I'll probably end up buying a commercial copy to achieve the same end, but somehow it feels artificial).
/JB