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by raju 812 days ago
The minimum price of the book is free. You could grab a copy and determine if you like what you see and then pay the full price.
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and that is the appropriate price for a collection of reddit(?)-messages grouped by topic.
What do you mean?

That there are tasks out there that some ought to do for free if someone else thinks these should be done for free?

The "pay what you think it is worth" model is not a scalable and viable approach. It most likely only works when everything costs money and "pay what you think" is a novelty that gains sympathy and attention.

But as soon as the novelty wears off it is not a sustainable approach.