Why is it so expensive when at least one major music company has been quoted as saying that the manufacturing cost of a CD is about $0.17?

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I''m sure that the cost of CD manufactoring is that cheap, but thats the manufactoring cost...think they would actually sell them to you that cheap? That would make no profit.
And dont expect to produce CDs by yourself heh.

The point is, the higher bulk quantity you buy, the less it costs...its that simple.
Music companies probably buy massive amounts.

Ibuku
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When you are pressing CDs, the first CD is insanely expensive. It requires reading your source disk and physically etching the data into a reverse press master. Then from the reverse press master, they have to cast an actual press master disk. Once they have the press master, it costs mere pennys to make each CD, but the process of making that press master is somewhat expensive. To make the cost reasonable, you need to amortized the cost of the original press master over thousands of CDs.

Ron Frazier
Kronos Software
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