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Originally Posted by Barcey
It actually made me laugh reading the big publishing houses trying to justify the 3 month delay. They are essentially trying to tell people that their business model requires them to gouge their best customers and there is no other way it will work. This might be the reality of how their business model has worked for the last 80 years but it's not really a good idea to tell the paying customers that.
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I'm a big buyer of hardcover books (I bought more than 100 in 2009) and don't think I have been gouged. I buy hardcover books because I perceive a value in them that I do not perceive in paperbacks nor, currently, in ebooks (I also bought more than 125 ebooks in 2009, so it isn't that I buy one exclusively).
I see no value whatsoever in a Dan Brown or Stephen King book regardless of price or format, but I find great value in Michael Burlingame's
Abraham Lincoln: A Life, which was a $125 2-volume hardcover set.
I do not think that people who buy hardcovers regularly believe they are being gouged or they would stop buying them.