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Originally Posted by charleski
This is based on the Feb 28 NYT article, which 'puts a lie' to the claims that removal of physical costs will lead to large savings, since printing, storage and shipping only represent 12.5% of the cost of a typical hardback. |
Physical costs clearly are a much larger chunk of the actual costs of books than designing, editing and typesetting, which is what they've been telling us, so yes, it's a lie.