It's a scam and they really should be ashamed of their greed, if they had the capacity to feel shame. The price of manufacture and distribution has gone down tremendously, but the industry is happy to artificially keep prices high and pocket the difference. When people complain at the disparity, they trot out some spokesmuppet to tell us all that lowering prices would somehow 'devalue' the work, as if they cared one whit for the authors or works, other than as a vehicle to generate profit.
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