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Originally Posted by GA Russell
For example, you would consider the price which maximizes the publisher's profit to be just, even if it were too high for the general public, wouldn't you? As I've stated elsewhere (above, I think), we have in the US a public policy of encouraging everyone to read, and a price point which limits books to the well to do violates that public policy. I would consider such a price to be unjust. Particularly in the case of books which are "classics", which you say Catch-22 is.
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I'm not Dennis, please forgive me for replying.
From my admittedly unscientific analysis in the "inflation thread" I made some time ago, it was determined that MMPB are
too cheap. Their prices have not risen accounting for inflation for over 30 years. Do you think books were priced only for well-to-dos in 1980?
Books are cheap in relation to other things families consume. Cell phones, computers, gadgets, restaurants, movie theater tickets, Disney vacations, clothes, housing, cars, etc. And if money is tight due to unemployment and disability there are libraries and retailer discounts available.