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But here's the thing, my feedback reads: "As your target market[1], I don't like what you're selling me". [1] assuming the target market are people in the process of writing and publishing a self-published (e)book

No. The target market is "people in the process of writing and publishing a self-published (e)book - who are willing to buy a ebook at price point $X".

The market of folk who would buy the book at $10 is probably larger - but I guarantee it's not 10 x larger.

And if you're not going to get at least $30 value from the book - it doesn't sound like you're the market.

(Also - as an aside - I get the impression that you think that paper is the largest cost of a paper book. That for $30 price point paper would be expected... The thing is that the paper bit is the cheapest part of a book. On a normal bookshop book it's about 10% of the money you pay.)

However small percentage of the costs paper is for book it is very large percentage of the value (at least for a percentage of the customers).

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