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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
They can be a bit cheaper as I noted. As long as the author gets the same $$ per copy, as they are doing the same amount of work regardless of what format the book is sold in.
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I don't really think the authors getting the 'same $$ per copy' is something it's really fair to demand though. As I pointed out, there are TONS of jobs where people do the same (or more) work for less for the same pay, and tons of *sales* jobs (which is really what authoring, as a profession, is) where there is absolutely no such guarantee. Just to give you an arts-related example, my cousin is in a band and he gets paid for his gigs. But I can promise you that his take-home pay for a gig is not the same as Aerosmith's take-home pay for a gig, even if they both are doing the same 'job.' Similarly, I have co-workers who do the same work as me who get paid more because they have more experience, and others who get paid less because they have either less experience, or less education and so on. So there is some truth to the whole 'it's worth what people will pay for it' argument, however you might wish it was otherwise. Authors do not get to be a special exception just because they are special or anything like that.