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Matilda Milne
He was my lecturer at uni and he posted it for free online.
Joshua Pitzalis
Not at all. It's a superb read and years went into writing it. I think $16.50 is a steal.
Michael Bailey
I borrowed the money to pay for it and subsequently feel no moral responsibility to payback the money.
Margie
Not for a nonfiction book that involves a lot of research. Don't be so stingy.
Philip Shade
Try your local library
Daniel
The amount of work required to produce a book would bear some logical relationship to the book's price, if there were only one copy. But books are not like original sculptures or paintings that billionaires are willing to bid through the roof because - for now - there can only be one precisely original copy of an artwork. But given that the actual production cost of the second, third, ...., and millionth copies of an ebook is almost zero, the cost of producing the original work bears no logical relationship to the price of any additional copy. And that is why, for example, legal libraries and illegal pirates can distribute unlimited copies for free (although a library won't let you keep a copy, only "borrow" it). Ultimately the cost of information becomes the cost to copy it. Ebooks have antiquated the original physical basis for rationing information in paper form. One way to restore rationality would be to make all information free, and let the government tax the economy and pay creators according to the number of downloads of their work. Since the government can tax almost everybody, no one would then escape paying creators - and the compensation to creators would no longer depend on their ability to manipulate police states into creating artificial scarcities of information, something which doesn't work very well anyway. And compensation to creators would be set according to public interest (in theory, at least, if governments work for the public interest) rather than by corporate interest as is done now. See Against Intellectual Monopoly for other arguments against artificial scarcities of information by legal manipulations.
Hans Bech
No. There is no other law than that of supply and demand to determine the price. The price is what you pay and the value is what you get. It’s up to each of us to judge if the price justifies the value.
I price the Kindle-versions of my own books at $9.99 plus sales tax, but that’s only because Amazon offers the best royalty deal at the price point. This way they are priced way below the paper versions. Still I sell more books on paper.
I price the Kindle-versions of my own books at $9.99 plus sales tax, but that’s only because Amazon offers the best royalty deal at the price point. This way they are priced way below the paper versions. Still I sell more books on paper.
Alex Shrugged
It is overpriced by 2%.
I selected a random economic book and compared the e-book price to the paperback price. The e-book was 78% of the paperback. The "Debt" e-book was 80% of the paperback price so yes, it is slightly overpriced.
I selected a random economic book and compared the e-book price to the paperback price. The e-book was 78% of the paperback. The "Debt" e-book was 80% of the paperback price so yes, it is slightly overpriced.
Danyal
In average $0.03 per page.
Not too much as for years of research.
Not too much as for years of research.
Dave Menconi
Yes. I was thinking that the price would change over time. A new ebook might be initially worth $16.50 but after a few years it would drop to $9.99 and then eventually to $0.99 (99 cents) like all other ebooks.
But it's STILL $16.50!
But the answer is always the same: if it's too much, don't buy it. That will teach the b**s! Oh, but you want to learn something? Seems to be a problem, doesn't it...
Funny to have THIS conversation about a book about economics although it's not about supply and demand so...
But it's STILL $16.50!
But the answer is always the same: if it's too much, don't buy it. That will teach the b**s! Oh, but you want to learn something? Seems to be a problem, doesn't it...
Funny to have THIS conversation about a book about economics although it's not about supply and demand so...
MyNameIsTim
For this piece of rambling, inaccurate drivel, yes.
Joel
Sweet Capitalism
Connor
He's dead, just steal it.
DeadWeight
wow really interesting (read: really predictable) that those who like it say it's worth it, and those who don't say it is not.
i dunno a f*cking thing about economics so perhaps my ignorance is going to show here, but I don't know that i think something which is freely replicable/free of any cost of reproduction should be sold for more than $15 a pop, regardless of the effort that went into producing it, or the quality of the object
i dunno a f*cking thing about economics so perhaps my ignorance is going to show here, but I don't know that i think something which is freely replicable/free of any cost of reproduction should be sold for more than $15 a pop, regardless of the effort that went into producing it, or the quality of the object
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