Again, I think there's a lot of room for a nuanced discussion there. There is a problem! The problem is capitalism! But at this point I want to remind you that this whole thread started with someone going "hur dur this guy writes like a dork."
The $27 a hardcover book costs is very close to the actual cost of making the book Very little of which is the cost of printing the physical copy, and relatively little of which is profit for the publisher's stockholders
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The anti-publishing stuff is unusually uninformed outsiders saying "The publisher is a useless parasite, the author's 15% royalty is the only money that really matters, and therefore the price point of all books should be at most $5 and piracy is justified"
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And pretty much every working author commenting on this says this POV is very common and totally, absurdly ignorant
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