Philip Pullman Quotes

Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

It bothers me when people spoil the market.

Very, very rarely do you find bands underpricing.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.

I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it.

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

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

There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!'

Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

If you live in a yard sale kind of neighborhood - in good weather, most neighborhoods are crawling with them on weekends - do a sweep to see what the competition is charging. No one is going to buy your $7 book if they can get it down the block for $1.

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Where you have a monopoly the American public will get gouged. It's as simple as that.

Do not inflate prices one to another.

What is price gouging and what is capitalism can sometimes be a fine line.

Price gouging for drugs that treat cancer in children is simply unconscionable.