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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Copyright law isn't really the issue... it's fine the way it is. It's the business model that needs to change to accommodate e-books.
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It's not just e-books. I just can't figure out why these PDA games cost as much as a PC game. They don't even come close to the scope of PC games, nor do they have to contend with the costs of product packaging and the pressing of CDRoms.
So why are they charging so much? I'm definitely not going to pay that kind of money for what is at most a fairly lame game as far as games go. I stick to the freeware games, or the demos of the pricey ones. Now, if they were only charging $5, I'd even buy it and I'm on disability! I think so would a lot more people. It's simple logic. A lot of $5 sales is going to make them a lot more money than a few $25 - $30 sales...
It goes the same with e-books. Since there are literally no production costs that go into the copy of each e-book sold, (other than bandwidth and server costs which would be minimal because an e-book isn't a large download, or possibly marketing...) they should be priced quite affordably. If the e-books are within the reach of pretty much anyone, they'll sell a lot more product.