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Originally Posted by krisk
This does in any form answer your question, but is something that I have been mulling, and may indeed have already been discussed until exhaustion, but that is how are ebook prices worked out? Yes, the author needs to be compensated for their talents, but the savings on paper and all the associated expense needs to be taken into consideration. If a new HB sells for $25, how much of that amount goes into the actual physical construction of the book?
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Very, very little. The HB print run of a book generally pays all the costs - the marketing and publicity, the editing, and all the rest of it. A subsequent PB release is pure profit for the publisher.