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What I find interesting is that books are about the only form of entertainment media that gets drastically more expensive as the years go by.
Music, movies, video games have pretty much been fixed at the same prices for the last 30 years. $10-15 for an album, $40-60 for a video game, $10-20 for a movie (when they didn't use rental pricing, anyway).
And yet in some of these cases, the price of production has dramatically gone up (video games and movies). But books are pretty much the same (probably cheaper to make thanks to computers).
Prices should go up, thanks to the inflation that is government policy making money worth less and less. But other areas of the entertainment media industry seem to avoid it somehow, or raise prices slower.
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