Also it's not like self-published authors have no stake in this or are united in thinking piracy has no impact on them (there are quite a few self-pubbers who very strongly believe the opposite)
The logic is pretty clear and the Authors Guild among others have laid it out repeatedly and at length And it's not like they don't, in fact, demand to be paid more in royalties (that is also something the Authors Guild does regularly, it's their day-to-day business)
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But they obviously have reason to dislike "consumer advocates" who want the price to the customer to go down, or think sales figures don't matter at all
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The $27 a hardcover book costs is very close to the actual cost of making the book Very little of which is the cost of printing the physical copy, and relatively little of which is profit for the publisher's stockholders
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