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Originally Posted by jplumey
I understand the problem, just not its relevancy to this discussion. Are you saying the publishers should price the product based on the design cost alone? That they shouldn't sell their product based on it's value to their customers? That they should sacrifice their profits because it costs them so little to distribute their product?
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This is the key point.
We don't live in a medieval society where the "just price" for a product is its cost of production plus 10%. (Or whatever percent you choose). We haven't lived in this world for at least 500 years.
The value of a product is what a customer will pay for it; the cost of production is only relevant inasmuch as it is a floor that the price can't go below...on average, anyway.