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Originally Posted by Lemurion
For the most part, blame is a term used by people seeking to absolve themselves of responsibility for a situation by means of finding fault and using that to direct the responsibility elsewhere.
I am concerned about higher prices, but I'll accept higher prices for some books if I can get lower prices for others. It's a trade-off. As to agency, I'm a lot more concerned about the prices of the books I'm buying than how they're arrived at.
The other thing one has to look is how much sense it really makes to cater to 5% of your customer base at the expense of the other 95%. Ebooks are a niche market - and that means publishers have to focus their efforts on paper. Right now, that means a publisher that doubles ebook unit sales at the same time they lose 10% of their hardcover unit sales is taking a net loss even if they're priced equally - let alone if the ebooks are priced at 40% of hardcover.
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I find it incredibly hard to believe that ebooks are 5% of the total book market when the kindle is the number 1 best selling item on amazon. Not to mention the nook from B&N, The Sony readers, not to mention all of the used ones sold on ebay and other sites. You cannot honestly believe that with all these brick and mortar stores closing down that ebooks make up 5%.