Comment Despicably cheap (Score 1) 155
Amazon and the big publishers have kept the price of books at where they are today, they take a chunk and give a laughable amount back to the author. You want to rail against a $15 ebook being published by one of those guys, I'm all for it, their cut should be considerably less. However if you want to complain about a $8 ebook put out by an author, on their own, who has to do ALL the marketing and ALL the legwork on top of spending a sizable portion of a year to create that book... go fly a kite.
You pay $10 to Netflix to get dozens of ours of entertainment a month.
You pay $18 to see a movie for 2 hours.
You plunk down $20 to drink beer, have some wings and enjoy a 3 hour football game at the bar.
$15 for an ebook, which gives you at least 10 hours of entertainment is not unreasonable.