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Mr. Goodbar · 01-31-2010, 07:46 PM

It would be interesting to watch the pirate trend in Macmillan titles before and after this process. Will this drive greater pirate activity........it would certainly seem probable. The publishers certainly have the right to charge what they want for their books and consumers have the right to vote by buying or not buying their titles. I'll probably vote with my wallet by not buying any of their titles, waiting until they reduce the ebook price or by just getting them at the library if I really want to read them. I'm sure we'll see a great Harvard Business Review analysis of this in the next few years.

01-31-2010, 07:46 PM	#41
Mr. Goodbar Wizard Posts: 1,005 Karma: 98078 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Mini 4	It would be interesting to watch the pirate trend in Macmillan titles before and after this process. Will this drive greater pirate activity........it would certainly seem probable. The publishers certainly have the right to charge what they want for their books and consumers have the right to vote by buying or not buying their titles. I'll probably vote with my wallet by not buying any of their titles, waiting until they reduce the ebook price or by just getting them at the library if I really want to read them. I'm sure we'll see a great Harvard Business Review analysis of this in the next few years. Last edited by Mr. Goodbar; 01-31-2010 at 07:49 PM.