Thread: Pricing and Policies ... what is fair?
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Old 10-28-2019, 05:45 AM   #51
murraypaul
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
Here is no such thing as a fair price. Fair to who? Fair on what grounds? Just buy or don’t buy.

Speaking of technical books which normally cost $50 or $60 and which I don’t usually buy due to price. I just received an email from a publisher who was having a $20 sale for their books. At that price, I bought one.

Because it was fair? No. Because it was a price I was willing to pay. It may be an unfair price at $20. It MAY be that the market is so small that if the normal price was $20...then it wouldn’t be worth writing those books in the first place.

Who knows? Surely not I. All I know is that I didn’t buy the book at $60 and did buy the book at $20.
Doesn't that rather undermine your "support the artist, don't be a freeloader" argument?
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