ext_26689 ([identity profile] deire.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] seanan_mcguire 2010-02-12 07:24 pm (UTC)

The $15 is the price you pay for reading it early in Kindle or hardcover--not for reading it at all. Just as one pays to see a movie in theater or waits for it on DVD. The publishers do bring prices down after the hardcover earns out.

My goodness, an industry not wanting to subsidize an Amazon product by being loss leaders and undercutting their hardcover early release. And leaping at a competitor with Amazon who does not in fact undercut them. What a surprise.

Not blaming the authors is good. But I'm not convinced blaming the publishers works either.

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