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I won't buy from them at all. Total boycott! | 71 | 16.75% | |
I won't buy from them at all and I will get their stuff from the darknets. | 90 | 21.23% | |
I won't buy from them at all and I will get their stuff through other legal means. | 22 | 5.19% | |
I won't buy at the higher price but I will wait some months for the price drop. | 131 | 30.90% | |
I'll buy books I'm eagerly anticipating at the higher price but wait for other stuff. | 56 | 13.21% | |
I'll buy whatever I feel like. The higher price doesn't matter to me. | 38 | 8.96% | |
Other. (Please explain.) | 16 | 3.77% | |
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02-04-2010, 02:52 PM | #61 | |
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The biggest problem, IMO, is that the price will kill the ebook market. The only way I see the market to survive (other than the publishers lowering the price) is if they publishers manage to kill the used pbook market. I know they're trying to do that, but doubt if they can succeed. Assuming the (new) pbook prices match the ebook prices ($15) then it's quite likely that I will simply stop buying new pbooks. But I won't commit to that. A limitation of the used pbook market is the difficulty of finding exactly what you want. I rarely leave the used book store without buying something-but I often leave without buying the book I went there to look for. So I'm not going to commit myself to a boycott, but it seems likely that the effect of my buying habits will be similar. |
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02-04-2010, 02:54 PM | #62 | |
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As someone who did not buy her first book until college (and no one else in the family bought books either) I find their version of class warfare abhorent. Obviously, Macmillan books were simply not available. |
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02-04-2010, 02:57 PM | #63 |
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The more I see the particularly poor attitude coming from authors, the more I'm tempted to go with the second option, and/or used books.
And don't try to feed me some line about how, if I do that, ultimately all published works will disappear. You know it's not true, and so do I. But I'm getting mighty tired of seeing authors time and again parrot what seems to be the party line: "Macmillan's looking out for our best interests! Buy our books, or we'll immediately and spontaneously starve/freeze/explode/be eaten by opossum!" Authors chose to become authors. If you can't make a living doing it, don't quit your day job. Or learn to negotiate better terms. |
02-04-2010, 03:05 PM | #64 | |
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02-04-2010, 03:07 PM | #65 |
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Don't they have Macmillan paper books at the library? That seems very strange since any library can buy the paper book and lend it out.
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02-04-2010, 03:10 PM | #66 |
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I have to confess I didn't know about library unavailability for books from certain publishers. I thought it's not only immoral, but also illegal in US to discriminate who can buy products once they are on sale. Can somebody point me to relevant info on MacMillan?
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02-04-2010, 03:18 PM | #67 |
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I'd happily pay $15 for an ebook if $5 went to the author. I think part of people's outrage over the price is that we know that the authors are still getting screwed.
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02-04-2010, 03:53 PM | #68 |
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I'm perfectly willing to pay $15 for an eBook the day it is released.
However, $10 is too much for me to pay for an eBook that has been out for over 12 months. However, it seems most people feel that $10 is a fair price for eternity. So, the question for the publishers, are they going to make more money with a higher margin on the few books sold initially, or with a lower flat rate and more sales over the life of the server? Last edited by MovieBird; 02-04-2010 at 04:00 PM. |
02-04-2010, 03:55 PM | #69 | |
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This is just more FUD. |
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02-04-2010, 04:09 PM | #70 | |
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As ebook market share increases, Amazon will reach the point where they can no longer sell them at a loss and so they are playing hardball so that when that time comes, publishers will have to reduce wholesale prices rather than Amazon having to increase retail prices. Publishing runs on a narrow margin and having to take a 50% cut in revenue from the ebook versions of their most profitable books would kill them - especially as ebook sales start to rise. This is simple self-defense. |
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02-04-2010, 04:44 PM | #71 | |
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02-04-2010, 04:45 PM | #72 |
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02-04-2010, 04:50 PM | #73 | |
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I also find it very strange when people here complains about $15. That is what I have to pay for English paper backs when postage is included or when buying locally. And since English paper backs is what I mostly read that is my standard price. |
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02-04-2010, 04:52 PM | #74 | |
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As technology improves, stuff gets cheaper for the same quality item. This happens because of *gasp* competition in the marketplace and the need for innovation. You cannot take the cost of producing a widget today, and say those costs will hold constant tomorrow. They won't. Instead of clinging to an outdated model, Macmillian should be investing in infrastructure to reduce production costs. That would enable them to undercut their competitors, and yet make a larger profit. Hey, competition at work instead of bellyaching about how they can't adapt to the new-fangled whatchamacallit dagnabbit KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN! |
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02-04-2010, 04:54 PM | #75 | |
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/Right now/, Amazon is the only one not trying to take more money out of our pockets. Just like /right now/, Macmillan is raising prices, and /right now/, several outspoken authors are all but demanding we go out and buy books to help feed them and others. There're many double standards at play here: people let publishers and authors have short-term views, but expect consumers to operate only on the long view. Publishers and authors get to be concerned about money in their pocket, but consumers are evil if they dare speak up about extra money coming out of their pocket. Publishers are allowed to set their own prices, but Amazon is the Devil incarnate when they do it. And so on. |
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