Finally, some opinion. On rec.arts.anime.misc, the favorite sport of anime company-bashing is once again in full swing. Recently, though, the smoldering resentment fans feel toward having to pay for stuff seems to have boiled over into venomous hatred. Whereas the stereotypical view of the irate fan towards the distributors had only been that they were incompetent and uncaring, now companies are routinely accused of gouging their customers or worse. Take, for example, the usual price differential between subtitled and dubbed tapes.
Subs sell much less than dubs, so they cost more.
This nonsense has been repeated so many times, it's starting to be accepted as fact. However, that doesn't change the fact subs sell significantly less than dubs. That being the case, you can't fault a company for being financially conservative and pricing the subs higher. That's only one example. There are others.