Brother, that is where we must differ, as NO publisher has any "right" to charge as they please!
Bibles were originally printed with the Anagignoskomena, because printers found that they could charge the same price for a Bible without that content, as with it. And since omitting it led to a higher profits, that is precisely what they did.
Publishers produce things to generate revenue. Something that gives them a financial return on their expenses. How much that return should be, has been subject to debate for milennia.
College Press charged over $350 for their NT commentary on CD,
Depending upon how long ago that was, that price might have been in the "usual and normal" range.
If one does not like the price of a specific good, then the option is to not purchase those goods. (An option that is always available, although, for some things, doing so might not be within either one's short term interests, or long term interests.)
This, dear brother is NOT the Christ-like way to do a business! I suppose you will say that they also have this "right"?
By verse picking, and omitting context, I can use the Bible to provide a Christian justification for every economic theory out there. By careful selection of the pericopes, one can demonstrate how any specific economic/political point of view is taught, and advocated in either the Gospels, or the Torah, or both. (This covers everything from anarcho-syndicalism to Pirate Party economic policy to Liberation Theology to Pan African Maoist Theory, to Gharar and Zakat as the fundamental requirements for a thriving economic society, and back to anarcho-capitalism.)
jonathon
