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Originally Posted by ardeegee
No, what I mean by "artificial scarcity" is society trying to pretend that one can't make ten billion extra copies of an electronic file at the touch of a button at zero added expense.
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The use case where someone creates and ebook then takes it off the market after a certain number are sold is an "out layer", certainly not the norm.
The "scarcity" that comes from pricing a book higher than "Billy" wants to or can pay for it is actually a virtue. Billy is no more harmed by a book being priced beyond his reach than the book not existing in the first place.
The virtue comes from the incentive to create books. The more money generated, the more revenue. The more revenue, the more incentive.
Lee