Yea, that was really all the further down the beer analogy rabbit-hole I was interested in traveling. My point was that I find even "just OK" books to be a bargain at current retail prices. I'd probably pay a good-bit more for the enjoyment I get from reading them.
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Originally Posted by murg
Price is usually taken to be an indication of quality, especially in marketplaces with a lot of commodity products, such as beer or books.
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Beer? Yes. Books? No. Not in my experience anyway. The price of newly-released books has always been the price of newly-released books (with slight increases for inflation). *shrug*
Sure, that may be changing now. But the availability of cheaper and even free ebooks doesn't make prices I've always been happy to pay suddenly outrageous.