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No, a few people do not have the power to override everybody else. But we have not made a head count yet! I am a consumer only (no connection to authors, publishers, etc), and I prefer the pay-per-book method. So may many other consumers -- perhaps more than support your point of view. Nothing is free, in the end you always wind up paying in some way. I prefer the easy and transparent way.
And you are forgetting something. For physical goods the situation often is the same. You make a sample, then a mold. After that the production costs for each following piece may even be next to nothing, if the material is inexpensive. But because of the design and marketing costs they still sell each piece for 100 times or more of production costs. Is that first sample the only piece holding real value? In the end, what is monetary value? What you can get for it.
Why is a knockoff worth less than the real thing for a physical good? Even if the quality is the same?
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