Bit of an unrealistic example don't you think, that's a mean of $5 or a median payment of $0. Although if we are talking ebooks, or music its like a coffee shop where 99 people get virtual lattes, looks, tastes, and smells like a latte, but has no physical reality, probably a great way to diet. Then we've got the hundredth sucker that gets a real latte made out of the most expensive real ingredients hand carted in from shangri-la, complete with gold encrusted sprinkles, fireworks and a crystal commemorative cup complete with his/her name and date of purchase. Oh and to make it more accurate lets say that you only had to make the virtual latte once, and now you have some idiot vending machine that just hands it out whenever someone asks so there is no actual labor physical, mental or otherwise involved in them, which means that your cost per virtual latte is basically $0 over time regardless of how much it took you to create it initially. Its a case of (Initial cost of virtual latte + marginal cost of virtual latte * 99 people)/99 which since your marginal cost is 0 would be (Initial cost of virtual latte)/99 and that's if you only sold 99 of them, hopefully as a soon to be latte baron you would sell significantly more of them. Its still kind of a failed metaphor since last I looked reading a book or listening to music didn't cause the book to disintegrate into almost unusable crud. Actually if I liked lattes 500 might not be unreasonable that concoction. How much does it cost to hand cart stuff from shangri-la?
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Bit of an unrealistic example don't you think, that's a mean of $5 or a median payment of $0. Although if we are talking ebooks, or music its like a coffee shop where 99 people get virtual lattes, looks, tastes, and smells like a latte, but has no physical reality, probably a great way to diet. Then we've got the hundredth sucker that gets a real latte made out of the most expensive real ingredients hand carted in from shangri-la, complete with gold encrusted sprinkles, fireworks and a crystal commemorative cup complete with his/her name and date of purchase. Oh and to make it more accurate lets say that you only had to make the virtual latte once, and now you have some idiot vending machine that just hands it out whenever someone asks so there is no actual labor physical, mental or otherwise involved in them, which means that your cost per virtual latte is basically $0 over time regardless of how much it took you to create it initially. Its a case of (Initial cost of virtual latte + marginal cost of virtual latte * 99 people)/99 which since your marginal cost is 0 would be (Initial cost of virtual latte)/99 and that's if you only sold 99 of them, hopefully as a soon to be latte baron you would sell significantly more of them. Its still kind of a failed metaphor since last I looked reading a book or listening to music didn't cause the book to disintegrate into almost unusable crud. Actually if I liked lattes 500 might not be unreasonable that concoction. How much does it cost to hand cart stuff from shangri-la?