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I think it's not so much what a book costs that determines if a person will buy it but how it is presented (the cover image & blurb) and if it's about a topic (non-fiction) or characters(fiction) that captures a person's interest. The most expensive single book I ever bought was around $50.00 (it was a copy of the Oxford Shakespeare) back when I was around 18 yrs old. There were no e-readers back then (in 1988) so if I wanted a copy of Shakespeare's complete works I had to pay the price that Waldenbooks asked. I still have it though I now have access to ebook versions of course. It really comes down to supply and demand at some point. If a person wants a given book badly enough they will spend the amount that the retailer asks (within reason) to get it. On the other hand if they have no interest in a given book they might turn it down if there was a free giveaway of that particular book.
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