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Originally Posted by BWinmill
I've played video games with much higher production costs, and it ran less than $0.20/hour. It kinda makes me wonder why authors and publishers think that they are so much more valuable.
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These forms of entertainment are extraordinarily high cost and once you have experienced them, all of these things have zero monetary value. Quite frankly, they are also canned productions that have very little value beyond what an album, movie, or TV broadcast could offer. In a lot of respects rented books, er, electronic books, are quite similar.
My apologies if you adamantly disagree with how I value things, but some of us never had an opportunity to experience the high life. And while I was lucky and grew up in a house surrounded by books, it was of no thanks to publishers. It was thanks to a second hand market where books may sell at $0.20 each (about $0.30, inflation adjusted). Now publishers are savagely trying to rip even that away in the emerging ebook markets. And I have no doubts that ebooks are eventually going to replace the bulk of pbooks, so it is a very real threat.
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Well interesting as all this is, you should understand that the second hand market would not exist without the "first hand" market. If the book isn't written, because its not worth it for the author to write it, the publisher to publish it, or the bookseller to sell it, then you can't buy it second hand. Creativity ain't free and ultimately the worst form of saving is a world where it isn't worth it to create new art.