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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Actually, it is. Saying blind people need to pay 3x the RRP for the same work is possibly discrimination, and in any case not just.
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Saying poor people need to pay the same amount for the same work as rich people is possibly deiscrimination as well, and in any case not just by the same logic. What about non-English speakers who pay more for a book translated into their language? What about non-US customers who pay more for a book in the UK than in the US?
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
As such, if you can, through your relative monopoly on your IP, "enforce", through making availabe an "authorized" audiobook of your book at 3x the price of the pback, you're not being "fair".
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Only, I assume, if the majority of voters decides it's not fair? Otherwise, if we're just talking subjective standards, you have your idea of fair and I have mine.
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Anyway, if another company can provide the same title at 10$ (or 12$), this only proves that you're cheating blind folks out of their money, or that you're paying way too much by hiring voice candy (what, brad pitt needs to read your harlequin novel?), so proving through "the market" that your prices were unfair, per the above definition.
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A fascinating perspective. One wonders what the world would be like if all businesses were subject to the same requirements.