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Originally Posted by charleski
You should be in politics.
Way to go with putting on the spin in your opening paragraph! Instead of it being about readers who want to pay as little as possible for their books, it becomes an issue about publishers not devoting enough attention to ebook creation.
I'd certainly like to see publishers devote the same care to producing ebooks that they do for physical product. I'd certainly like to see them give ebooks the importance they deserve as part of their release schedule. I'd certainly like to see DRM die a miserable death. But this isn't a 'community', this is a market, and good books come at a price.
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Have you heard of
gold-plating? That's what incumbent industries who are certain they will still be able to sell their product in the future do (esp. problematic in the health-care industry, where they noticed that they could just "sell" all their patients a mandatory TV subscription during their stay, which allowed them to tack 50$ on to the hospital bill).
Remember: we're not talking about a competitive industry here. The only thing they need to be good at is marketing, everything else is unimportant so long as a book doesn't contain more than 1 grievous error per page.
Why are you so quick to assume that they're already being their most efficient selves? The movie (and music) industry literally never makes a profit, because they make sure that all their profits are eaten up by their daughter companies who are headquartered abroad.. Is it really so unlikely to think that something similar is also happening in publishing?