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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Thanks! As a freelancer, I've had plenty of exposure to pricing factors that the customer never considers. If my rates were restricted to what some guy on the Internet thinks my costs "ought" to be, I'd be out of business in 3 weeks flat. 
What puzzles me at this time is that people (including myself, at times) react in a thoroughly irrational way to prices and price changes. Sometimes they will just accept a $30 surcharge tacked onto an airline ticket, other times they'll vow eternal vengeance over a $3 increase. Numerous external and irrelevant factors seem to determine what qualifies as a "fair price."
Neither traditional economics nor common sense have a place for these issues. Perhaps some of the behavioral economists have figured it out.... |
So does anyone actually know how much of a book's cost is the printing, the paper, the shipping, the storage, the cost to the store to stock it and so on for things related to a paper book that are not related to an eBook? I know eBooks have the cost of DRM added to them. But the storage costs are minimal, no shipping costs, no printing costs, no warehousing costs, no costs to have it on the shelf etc. These are the things we should know to know how much less an eBook actually costs to make then the pBook.