[RobbyS]

The stuff is over priced. DVDs have dropped to the level of VHS because that is what the market demands. No artist should get any more for an album than a writer gets for a book

[jenny65]

The stuff is over priced. DVDs have dropped to the level of VHS because that is what the market demands. No artist should get any more for an album than a writer gets for a book.

We could start a whole new topic on book prices too. Remember when a paperback novel was less than a dollar and a hardback was five or six, ten at most?

I don't have the exact figures, but as I recall, book authors and musical artists make less than a dollar from each copy sold. After manufacturing, marketing and distribution, it's the media companies that get the biggest share of the pot. With what little they do make from CD sales, most recording artists are forced to tour just to make money. Authors usually don't have that option.

Free enterprise in action. (I'm not bashing the system. That's just the reality of it)

[Protagoras]

No artist should get any more for an album than a writer gets for a book.

Who makes that call? You?

Price controls are a statist creation. They are enforced by violence or the threat thereof. Who will do your bidding?