Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:01:51 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: New mass market pb format
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 ronkean at juno.com wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:20:19 -0500 "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> writes:
>
> > And I'm really confused by your math.  You're willing to spend $500 a
> > year on books -- but only if they are priced at (or below?) $5.00
> > each.  But if their price rises to $8.00 each, you're only willing to
> > spend less than one-fifth that, $96, a year for books.  And should,
> > ghod forbid, the prices rise to $10.00 each, $20 is your annual
> > maximum for books.
>
> I don't think it's a matter of math - rather it's economics.  If tuna is
> $1 per pound and caviar is $1000 per pound, most people would buy far
> more tuna than caviar, and, spend far more money each year on tuna than
> on caviar.  Probably most people would buy no caviar at all, given those
> prices.  If the prices were reversed, people would spend much more money
> on caviar than on tuna.

Or, perhaps, disposable income.  Joe Fan is much more likely to have $5 he
can afford to blow on a single purchase than $25 or $30.

-- Dick Eney