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Originally Posted by stustaff
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).
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Paintings need not apply, they are unique works. Music and movies, however, I feel the same way about. Note that I didn't say "they should only barely be making enough to live", I said, "don't jack up the price just to make culture seem more valuable". Previously I very rarely purchased hardcover books because of thier steep cost - however, I assumed (perhaps incorrectly, perhaps not) that the price of these books was somewhat related to the cost of printing, distributing, advertising, royalties, and a reasonable profit to the middlemen. Now, as people have pointed out, the costs of the "middlemen" such as publishers have dropped considerably, but they still want their products to be seen as "more valuable". That kind of thinking should abolutely never apply to cultire. Again, I'm not talking about unique items here like paintings and sculptures. I'm talking about "there are as many copies out there as people want" items, like books, movies and music (I am a musician btw).