Thread: ebook piracy numbers
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Old 08-05-2010, 08:07 AM   #128
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker View Post
Why is $10 for an ebook "unsustainably" low when a pbook can be sold for $8 (or less), despite the cost of goods sold being so much higher? Why is it necessary for a publisher to make profits an order of magnitude higher on an ebook than on a pbook for it to be sustainable?
It is the profit from bestselling hardcovers that are necessary for the publishers.
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