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Originally Posted by MrBlueSky
Same for a book. if the cover price is too high -- it's the artists fault. No argument.
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Your average paperback in the UK has a cover price of say £7.99, (I may be a bit out of date on this, I haven't lived there for a couple of years - I live in Denmark, where English language book pricing seems to follow the rule, "think of a number, double it and add nought). Now, of all the costs associated with producing that book, the big variable is what the author gets paid, (other things being relatively equal - such as cost of editing, production and distribution). If the author is paid a £20,000 advance and 45p per sale, her book costs £7.99 to the consumer. If the author is paid a £250,000 advance and 75p per sale the cover price is still £7.99. Cover prices then seem to bear little relationship to what authors get paid, and hence, the cover price cannot be held to be the authors fault.