I just want to make it clear that nowhere did I ever state people should pirate the books. If I thought they should, I would have provided a very convenient lin

I just want to make it clear that nowhere did I ever state people should pirate the books. If I thought they should, I would have provided a very convenient link to the pirate site. I wanted the Fleming company to be aware they weren't sitting on some sort of OPEC-like monopoly -- which is the thinking that apparently drives the current Agency pricing model in publishing. Pricing is the hot topic in publishing right now. Notice how someone such as Konrath is raking in the dough with his $2.99 eBooks. It doesn't matter what the publisher thinks the "value" is -- it's the price people are willing to pay that matters. Does Konrath think his stuff is devalued because it's no longer in paper form at a higher price? Or does he see the greater value in having a larger income? Tell me, does being free devalue the software a lot of you use? I don't think so. But if they tried to price it, what would you be willing to pay? You're all very smart people here (and I state that without any sarcasm), so I wonder if anyone here has devised any sort of pricing algorithm that could be applied to publishing? I always hold up the Henry Ford model: he priced his cars cheap because he wanted them above all to be affordable and to sell. I think publishing needs to have the same attitude. When people disagree with that, I'm just puzzled and stumped.