Floppy discs are more expensive and cannot hold anywhere near the amount of data that discs can, plus they are very susceptible to getting damaged by magnetic interference. You are a lot more likely to lose data on a floppy than a disc. Things like memory cards are more expensive to make, and to get a memory card to hold the amount of data a CD or DVD can, you are usually paying several times the cost. Like kof2000 said you can buy a pack of 100 CDs for $15-$20. In Australia, that's about how much you pay for CDs and then to get a 1GB flash drive usually costs at least $15. I don't even think that you can buy solid state media that holds the amount of say a Blu Ray or HD DVD.
In the future, solid state media may take over as the multimedia superior, but in the mean time you will just have to be more careful with your discs to prevent them from scratching.
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