Comment 10 years of brexit (Score 2, Interesting) 116
Including 4 years where the UK was in the EU + 2 years of COVID
Maybe it's a vicious circle of higher prices leads to lower volume? I like to buy a book at a nearby bookstore, but they have a limited selection of my kind of books and also charge the suggested retail price. If they offered better selection and reasonable prices I would buy four times as much from them. And it's the only book store within 25 or 30 kilometers.
Depends on the market. For some genres, people just pay. Erotic short fiction for instance gets away with charging enough for a short story that it's almost close to the cost of a streaming service. I know this from stalking reddit when I was investigating the self publishing industry. Doing a search for "data porn" gives fabulous insights.
The best defense against logic is ignorance.