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Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.

— Michael A. Stackpole

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.

— Michael A. Stackpole

I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

— J. A. Konrath

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

— Michael A. Stackpole

When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.

— Richard Ben Cramer

I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.

— Robert Gottlieb

Booksellers are tied to publishing - they need conventional publishing models to continue - but for those companies, that's not the case. Amazon is an infrastructure company; Apple sells hardware; Google is really an advertising company. You can't afford as a publisher to have those companies control your route to market.

— Nick Harkaway

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

— Michael A. Stackpole

✗Opposing Perspectives

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

— Richard Stallman

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

— J. A. Konrath

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.

— Michael A. Stackpole