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Originally Posted by charleski
It will matter.
We all pay the price for those who would trade short-term personal gains for long-term general losses. This is why Amazon has been so destructive to the ebook market.
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Destructive? Oh, you mean that they're behaving like retailers do with the vast majority of products. If you want to vote with your wallet, act against the people upsetting the apple cart (snarf snarf), Apple and the major publishers.
Retailers, as opposed to companies locked into a model where they are mere conduits, are not the problem, and never have been.
Apple, with their commitment to destroying the retailer model? Yea,
that is a problem. Shielding book prices from market forces, as you are effectively advocating, is a terrible idea. (Also, bluntly, it screws authors over badly)
Amazon (while I won't buy a Kindle or pay their contingency fees, personally) have done a lot to
build the ebook market. Apple are trying to tear it down. The long term doesn't matter when in the short term, the major beneficiary of Apple's action is going to be the darknet. And the conduit model means there will be NO realistic feedback into book pricing because of it - publishers will whine about it and
raise prices to try to compensate, pushing up the darknet market share further...