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Originally Posted by drofgnal
Hey, all we can do is try to have our voice heard. Better than sticking our heads in the sand. A movement has to start somewhere.
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I'm not sticking my head in the sand -- I'm making an individual decision about what works for me and what doesn't. I don't see why $9.99 is a line in the sand. It strikes me as arbitrary, and as I said, I would much rather pay $12.99 for a new release when the alternative is an $15-$18 hardcover I don't have the space for. But at least I'm not being charged extra for the privilege of not buying paper and ink.
The $9.99 "movement" doesn't at all address what I see as the biggest publisher abuse of all -- charging more for backlist titles than the cheapest in-print paper edition. I don't at all feel cheated by paying $12.99 for a brand-new title when the hardcover is $15+. I feel cheated as hell, however, when the price for an ebook of a 1995 title is $8.99 when there is a $6.99 paperback still in print.
If the "boycott" had as its battle cry "no ebook should cost more than the cheapest available paper edition" I would probably join, for all the good it would do. But $9.99 is, to me, an arbitrary number, and a "boycott" based on that arbitrary number does not at all address, IMO, the far more transparent, money-grubbing publisher abuse of pricing backlist ebook titles higher than paperbacks.