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Originally Posted by djloewen
I'd like to throw in here that my wife bought her Sony Reader in December of last year, and in the 12 months following she read just over 300 books - yes, almost a book a day. She never puts her reader down. So, if she's paying for all those books and the price goes from $10 to $15 per book, that's an extra $1500/year (total $4500/year) she's spending on books.
The idea that a (new) book has a perceived "value" that should sit at around the $15 mark is, in my opinion, disgusting. It is elitist, and it harms the culture of any country the believes it. Art, and culture is meant to be accessible to people. That's why we have libraries - and with these prices going up, am I ever glad we have them.
Authors want their books to be read, to be accessible to people. Artificially inflating a price to give the product a higher perceived "value" may work in some industries, but when it comes to culture that's just disgusting.
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could you please inform artists that they must price their paintings at somewhere around cost of materials + enough to pay their mortgage on a small property. Im tired of not being able to buy works of art due to teh ones i like costing Millions! It is elitist and harms culture.
Also could you have a word with musicians, oh and film makers too please
I dont get why you have an issue NOW all of a sudden? a New book has for the last 5 or 6 years had a perceived value of well over $15 why did it not bother you when it was a 60% mark up on hardnacks? but now its a %30 mark up on ebooks by the publisher(those are not actual figures btw but do show taht publishers have always sold books at what they believe they will sell for).