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Originally Posted by dsvick
Very good article. The part that disturbs me the most are all of the negative comments directed at authors.
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Why? It's completely predictable. Most people don't care who the publisher is, they care about who the author of a book is. Workers in some other industries would
love to have that level of direct identification, but the drawback is you get blamed as well as praised.
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On the same hand - I read about people deliberately leaving one star ratings and negative comments and I think that that is grossly unfair, and is certainly the wrong way to go about it.
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It's perfectly appropriate. If a book is deliberately not being sold to you, or sold at an overly high price, then it's entirely appropriate to rate it as such when the system is set up to allow it. If there was a separate channel for that sort of complaints, then I'd encourage people to use that - but there is not.
The market, in general, is not "fair".
Harry - Sure. But. They are offering something which actually has an upside: You get the book well
ahead of the print version. If Macmillian etc. were going to offer it a day ahead of the print version, I might be more inclined to listen to them: but they are not.
This is why I said in the $15 thread that in some cases I can and will pay that much: because the Publisher and the Author are offering me something which is
worth the premium! Equally, Macmillan et al. are still insisting on things like the value-reducing, cost-adding DRM, and screwing around half the time with georestrictions,
refusing to sell to me!
CluelessN00b - You mean
these CD's. Free, legal ebooks etc... (And yes, THAT Joe Buckley...)