• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    8 months ago

    honestly surprised no one has tried this before? or have they?

    like for once the man is selling an actual product with sort of mass appeal instead of weird niche stuff with low utility like sneakers or NFTs. and like $60 is expensive, but not orders of magnitude expensive? correct me where i’m wrong

    edit: typed 70 instead of 60 🤦‍♀️

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      8 months ago

      $60 for a public domain bible, public domain constitution, public domain pledge of allegiance, and public domain declaration of independence? Sounds like an infinite order of magnitude expensive to me.

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          Yeah but not that much money. First run hardcover novels cost like 15-25 bucks and it’s my understanding they earn the publisher the most money of any printing run and that’s even with the cut going to the author. So unless they’re producing these things with some high quality materials, which seeing who’s hawking these I doubt it, I think it safe to assume these things are earning at least 40 bucks in profit per sale.

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            Which, even assuming a generously low run of 100k, is still $4 mil. That assumes that Evangelical churches won’t buy these by the millions - and I assure you, many will.

            You’ll also get megachurches getting in on the action - there are a scary amount of mega pastors who are just waiting to be the new face of propaganda for a theocratic regime.

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      8 months ago

      How many books have you bought that are $70?

      You can get a hard cover set of Lord of the Rings (three books) for less money.

      Also the Bible is public domain, so yeah, $70 is expensive. If you contacted religious groups you could get a Bible for free.

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        plenty of limited edition and/or heirloom type books can sell for well above $60 (think of the last time you tried to buy a textbook). there are bibles on amazon that are selling for $60+ right now.

        (in case there was any confusion im not defending this loser don’t worry. just honestly curious why we haven’t seen this behavior before.)