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Volume of sales still affect prices. If I were commissioned to write a book....for one copy...I would have to charge all I desired to make for that one copy. Let's say I desired 100,000 dollars. The cost of the ebook or paper printing are immaterial.
If I could find two buyers, I'd halve the price to $50,000 each.
It would never occur to me to price the two copies at the cost it would take to send an email.
I have to feel I have a reasonable chance to make money for me to do work....else I will spend my time on other things that are more likely to make me money. It would help if folks would consider the cost of books as their way of incentivizing production of the books that bring them such joy.
Even ebooks don't just magically appear....even when the paper book already exists. Ere are all manner of rights issues, production, marketing, scheduling. And for what? To sell 500 copies a year for a backlist print? And, meanwhile, competing against sales of new and profitable titles?
If one wants the backlist to come out....then be willing to reward the effort,
Lee
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