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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
If you're talking e-books (and we are) then the costs per copy is zero. You spread the cost of creating the book (writing, editing, promoting, etc) over as many copies as your business model dictates.
So, unless the owner of the copy or distribution rights dictates that $2 per copy cost, the argument falls flat. That's not to suggest that such dictates don't exist but even when they do, it doesn't make them optimum.
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So the time and effort of the author is rated at zero, nice valuation... it may not have occurred to you that not all books sell a million copies and, even paying the author a living wage, can be a significant cost on small sale items... not to mention the costs of actually running a business selling books or (if selling direct) the costs and time involved...
Say an author writes a book in a year (£20k for a year) and the book sells 5K copies then a fair wage alone puts the book at £4 per unit just to cover that...
