Thread: Cost of eBooks vs dead-tree books
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Old 12-27-2020, 04:44 PM   #65
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
The pricing of books is very much tied to the expected income of the likely audience. Before I retired I was a programmer, and computer books would start at around $35. After I retired I took up knitting and full color knitting books would go for around $20.

One of my last programming tasks was to write a web based purchasing system for pdf reprints of articles from an academic business (MBA) journal. The price for each reprint was over $100; that was for a single article, not the whole issue.
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