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Originally Posted by elcreative
And movies only take a part of someone's time compared to the time investment in a good book... how much is a year or two of someone's life worth or are you happy with 30 minute pieces of plagiaristic rubbish...
If a favoured author produces a book I WANT to read then it's worth the asking price, if it's a book I might enjoy then I'll wait for it to be available more cheaply...
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Assume you pay the author a generous salary of $100k/year for 3 years, editors and others maybe another $100-200k total (because they're not spending all their time on a single author/book), and throw in some extra and call it $1million to write and bring a good book to market. That's maybe 1% of the budget of a Hollywood blockbuster. And most books aren't going to cost anywhere near that to bring to write and bring to market.
$5-10 for an ebook is a generous price. $20 for an ebook is an insult. The $10-20 range is a bit of a gray area that I generally will not stray into except for a very small handful of authors (bought George R. R. Martin's latest for $16 or whatever it was selling at, but justified that by being able to buy the previous books for $5 each).