01-06-2012, 04:25 PM | #631 |
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Oh, I wouldn't argue that the publishers don't have the right to price their books any way they desire. I'm just calling them foolish, in the long run, for the path they chose. They'll lose some sales and some authors, or else spend a lot of their profits on lobbyists.
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01-06-2012, 04:30 PM | #632 |
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Really? It seems to me most monopolies I experience are government-created "for the public good." (E.g. electric company, gas company, cable company.) Even many regulations seem designed more to protect companies that lobby politicians and exclude start-ups than to provide more choices for consumers.
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01-06-2012, 04:37 PM | #633 |
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So because the quality of the way content is displayed is different then our hypothetical 50" TVs (and please note that I did NOT originate this comparison so stop jumping all over my comments... go do the originator over) are all vastly different... a TV displays a broadcast programme, now whilst the quality of picture and sound may vary wildly, the content, of any individual programmme, is the SAME... two different books with different titles but physically the same size (dimensions and page count) do NOT have the same content and are NOT directly comparable... that is what I was putting over... and taking a joking poke at the OP of the comparison...
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The point I was attempting to make but seemed to have failed was this: TV panel manufactures were found to have participated in price fixing. These televisions all had different specs, sizes, features, colors, refresh rates, luminosity, etc. They were all very different. Yet they were all televisions. They were all selling televisions and could get together and influence market prices by agreeing to certain minimum prices etc. The same holds for books. They all contain different content, they are different sizes, shape, composition, etc. But they are all books. The publishers could get together and agree to certain minimum prices etc. |
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Analogy mismatch error...
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By the time you as a consumer got to choose between 50 zillion different models of unique TVs, the damage had been done because every TV was x% more expensive due to the inflated cost of its components upstream. The book analogy would be if suppliers of ink, paper or glue had made cartels to bump up the price of producing books. |
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