There are a lot of back - end logistics and intangibles that inform these relative costs, and I'm seeing a cultural slide toward the deep - discounted
ecommerce price as being regarded as the «real» $ value of a work, which
means that authors are not able to command as high a price for their work, and must rely entirely on price elasticity of demand, praying that the math on lower price, higher
sales # s adds up in their favor.