> text form as being completely subordinate and subsumed by its audiobook version Close to this, an other angle is to see the text version as source, and the a

> text form as being completely subordinate and subsumed by its audiobook version Close to this, an other angle is to see the text version as source, and the audiobook as a representation. The source having more information, or allowing for more representation has a real value. The same way raw files/original film in photography have a different value from a print. To go on with the analogy, historically we pay for photographic prints and rarely for the raw file (or the raw file would cost more than individual prints). And there is the same debate, when a photographer shoots a wedding and the couple didn't negotiate the raw files, they can be surprised they don't get them by default, even when paying for the print. I think in general the source/original material should be included in the sale of the representation, and the whole priced accordingly, but I get that it's not how the publishers see it, or how some customer would bargain to get only the cheapest part, and that behaviour becoming the least common denominator.