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Q&A Why are audio books more expensive than a movie ticket? [closed]

Think of all the millions of dollars actors are paid, and all the thousands of people who scroll by in the credits. Surely the cost of a printed book can't be translated to an audio book. The conce...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by dataphile‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T05:36:57Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/24702
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar dataphile‭ · 2019-12-08T05:36:57Z (almost 5 years ago)
Think of all the millions of dollars actors are paid, and all the thousands of people who scroll by in the credits. Surely the cost of a printed book can't be translated to an audio book. The concept of an audio book is much more closely related to a movie ticket than the printed version, yet the price of an audio book is much closer to the printed version.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2016-09-21T14:26:31Z (about 8 years ago)
Original score: 1