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Originally Posted by mrkai
While I would LIKE everyone that uses my software to pay me for it...I know in all honesty that if I was making physical product, I would have been done and out of business long ago because every "lost sale" (hate that phrase) would cost so much more.
And Guess what? You know it too...as does anyone else that is tech-saavy. You'd be better served thinking of what you provide as a service....or doing paper pub and taking some far more "tangible" risks.
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If I thought of my work that way... as a
service, instead of a product... I would probably charge more for it, as I would consider each e-book worth the time it took me to create it. I know what you're saying, but I don't think that works for anyone except a creator who is being paid directly by a boss/publisher/patron. I'm an independent author, and every dime I make comes directly from every product I sell, minus my personal overhead to make them available, not from a set salary.
That's why I sell my books as e-books, as opposed to print-on-demand or vanity press books, to keep my costs down, and be able to pass that cost to the consumer in the form of low product prices. Because, no, I could not afford to spend money on, or lose sales from, more expensive printed products.