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There are two major flaws with this article. The first is the author's reliance on the reader's understanding of the phrase "agency pricing model." A hyperlink
by jaysonelliot 15y ago
There are two major flaws with this article. The first is the author's reliance on the reader's understanding of the phrase "agency pricing model." A hyperlink to yet another article that presumably contains an explanation of the term somewhere within it is not the same as a simple one-sentence explanation.
The second is his assumption that "customers will migrate to lower-cost books." Books are not fungible objects. If I want to read the latest Eric Flint novel, I'm not going to pick up a Danielle Steele book instead because it's cheaper.
- Retric 15y agoI read a lot and I don't really notice or care who wrote most of them. Sure, I would be willing to pay 50$ to read the next Jim Butcher novel right now, but I also get a fair amount of free novels on my Kindle. If it's good I am more than happy to buy something by the author, but there is a lot of free stuff out there and I don't feel the need to spend money just because someone was published.