[murraypaul]

Originally Posted by leebase

Is it REALLY so hard to understand that there IS a market for books over $20?

You are the one who seems to find it hard to understand that there is also a market for lower priced books.

That the publishers make MOST of their money from THOSE customers?

Care to offer any evidence of that at all?
All those paperbacks taking up 80%+ of the fiction section at a book store aren't making money? All those books published only in paperback aren't making money?

(Or that most hardbacks are actually sold at list price? I was in a book store
yesterday, and more than half the hardbacks on display were discounted. So maybe people aren't actually willing to pay the full price?)

There truly are a lot of people who think that professional photography isn't worth much more than the cost of ink and paper.

And those people will spend (in combination) a large amount of money at cheaper photographers. In total, do you think mall photographers or art photographers make more money?

Such people do not matter to a professional photographer. He doesn't cater to them. They are not his market. Their opinions on his prices are never going to change his prices.

And he will make less money that the companies that do cater to those customers.