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Originally Posted by rlauzon
All physical objects are scarce by nature.
Since you agree that the scarcity of eBooks is artificial, how do you justify paying $10 for something that costs nothing to duplicate?
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Apparently you never wrote a book. While it costs nothing (not really nothing since you need a PC, storage space, etc... but I digress) to create the container of the work, creating the story took effort and that is worth more than nothing.
As a software developer I have a similar issue. To "develop" a product itself can take many man years plus all the training of everyone on the team including developers, testers, writers, product managers, etc. However, once it is complete and we have the deployable files it takes maybe $1 a CD to create the container for what was perhaps millions of $'s of R&D cost. Are you going to say that the software is "worth" $1 cause that's what it cost us to create the CD copy the customer gets?
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