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Originally Posted by haertig
Lots of things are that way. I remember paying $800 for a 17" computer monitor about 25 years ago. You can now buy that size for about $65. So if they jacked up the current price to $150, would you buy one and say, "Gee, that's so much cheaper than they used to be 25 years ago!"
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Are you saying that publishers have jacked up audiobook prices recently, or is this some odd hypothetical straw man?
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Comparing the cost of a box of CD's from years ago to the flash memory storage of today makes about as much sense as comparing an old CRT computer monitor's cost to a new LCD panel.
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Exactly - it makes perfect sense. Computer prices and monitor prices have come down drastically in past years. And if someone told you that manufacturers are jacking up monitor prices when they are decreasing steadily, you'd look at them funny.
The fact is, audiobooks are available at lower prices now than practically
ever. I'm not sure what there is to argue about there.