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Old 03-02-2009, 09:26 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Actually, perhaps the Technology companies took their pricing model from publishers. Publishers have been doing this for a lot longer than most technology companies have existed. Publishers advance authors, pay editors, pay for promotion, initial set up and generally reap this back in the higher price of initial release. Printing a book is really a small part of the costs once the setup is paid for.

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Chronologically, that does seem more reasonable. The pharmaceutical companies operate the same way.

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