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Originally Posted by jplumey
The point is that production costs for ebooks are not zero-not by a long shot. You're right that business plans for ebook shops would be based on large numbers of books, but that fact doesn't negate the reasoning that there are still costs associated with producing these ebooks. Even still, production costs alone don't dictate the cost of a thing-its value to the company's customers does.
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I have a computer, it cost the same to play Solitare on it as it does to copy a file...The host, internet costs, ect. are no more expensive for adveritizng or spamming as for a file download. Non-zero? Agreed. Approaching zero as a limit - absolutely...
You still haven't addressed the issue. It may cost a million to write a book. The marginal cost of shipping out a million copies might be less than $10,000 (all up) in the digital world. Where's the ability to amortize?
I can charge anything I want...And if I charge too much, you get product substitution. And when the price of the product substitution approaches zero, so does the price I can charge and get customers.
The art of advertizing it to tell lies about the product in order to sucker people into paying more that they need to for a poduct...