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Originally Posted by Trenien
I honestly don't feel like the average user cares whether the money they're paying generates an adequate profit (at best, it only has a fringe effect). Again, this is basing your business model on morality, one that is doomed to failure in the world of plentifulness that the digital realm is. At the end of the day, you can only make people consistently fork money over for things that are scarce.
So when a product, such as Steve's, is digital only, you have a problem. My feeling on the matter is that you can only take advantage of what will remain scarce: customers time. In other words, people will buy from you if they feel the convenience of doing so outweights the amount you're asking for.
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You have a valid point. I go darknetting when the frustration level over gaining a legal ebook version gets too high. And for a book I can pick up as a $6.99 mmpb, the bar - for me - is set rather low. If the publisher insists I have to wait for months or years for an ebook version and then insists upon putting it into a format I don't like while loading on the DRM - well, except for an occasional hiccup in the system, I can usually get a darknet version to tide me over until a decently-containered legal version arrives. (Of course, I assuage my guilt by buying an mmpb version... I suppose I should go through psychoanalysis to "cure" that behavior.
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Derek