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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Fountain soda is cheaper to produce than canned or bottled soda. I wonder why the customer always ends up paying more for it? Oh I remember now... it's because costs aren't always in a 1:1 ratio with value and price.
People can talk about what ebooks should cost until they're blue in the face, but the fact of the matter is... they will always cost exactly what the majority of people are willing to pay for them. They may get a little cheaper, but they're never going to get anywhere near their production costs.
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Terrible example. IIRC fountain sodas are more expensive because most places are trying to recoup losses with that. Think I learned that when I worked in a restaurant, they said they break even with the food or barely make it by, the soda is where the profit is. And its not so much that people are
willing, moreso they have to or theyre stuck with water. And how many people go to restaurants to drink water? Sure, you may get a complimentary glass but how many purposely order water instead of something else to drink? Id imagine it happens but not very often. Like movie theatres, everyone knows theyre killing people with the prices and most just deal with it and pay complaining the whole time. Others sneak food and drinks in. But I doubt anybody is really
willing to pay those crazy prices. Theyre forced to because they either dont want to leave or theres no better option. Luckily, all the ones I can think of have drug stores and dollar stores nearby so I dont have to suffer like that.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I dismantle. I chop the spines off with a huge papercutter that frankly terrifies me. I prefer feeding the pages into the scanner because I am lazy like that it's faster and doesn't wind up with warped text near the center margins.
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Sir, I must also ask. Id like to scan some of my own books and tried it once before, it took me forever to get one page done. Then again I had to bend the book in half and scan the same page over and over until it came out right, I have a printer / scanner. Im sure Im doing this wrong. What kind of scanner do you use? What program do you use? Where can I get both? Could you provide any and all information to help me on this? Please, I cant tell you how grateful I would be.