On Oct 3, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > I see no problem pricing single models collectively more expensive than > books.
Obviously, there is a big problem. It is not the way the digital industry has been working so far. The market is driven by expectations. When Apple decided to set 99% of iTunes catalogue at $0.99 it was setting expectations. And the market pretty much decided to align with this decision. If people who are used to pay $0.99 for a 4 minutes piece of music they'll listen to *dozens of times* are asked to pay 5 to 10 times that price for a downloadable PDF of a model they'll fold *a dozen time* in their life, obviously they'll need to find really good reasons to spend that much money on a single model. The books from Origami Kobo are all about ¥1800, which is let's say $20. Nobody's going to believe that there is as much value in 4 downloaded PDFs as in one single Origami Kobo book, and that, even if you include the shipping. I think it would be simpler is the system forced a single low price on all the models (like $2) and show by selling tons of stuff that authors who accept that get way more money (since the purpose here is to sell) than authors who set their price much higher. Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune
