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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
Why Do Ebooks Cost So Much?
“People would have heart attacks if they knew all the costs associated with digital publishing,” says Maja Thomas, senior vice president of the Hachette Book Group’s digital division. Tacking an e onto a book requires antipiracy software, digital warehousing, extra legal support, and programmers to adapt each title for Android, iPhone, Kindle, and all the other formats. That’s on top of the regular costs of turning a manuscript into a finished product.
Antipiracy software should be illegal, remove that one. Digital warehousing is super-cheap, 8TB redundant drive arrays are a couple thousand at the most. Remove that one. Extra legal support, maybe. Programmers to adapt each title is very misleading, hire a high school student to format shift for you, minimum wage plus free books will snag a million applicants. "...turning a manuscript into a finished product." is misleading as well, the manuscript is already in digital format.
The complaints overall are just false. The price of an eBook should be half the cost of the cheapest paperback copy of the book.
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Adapting books to format, that's an editor's job, not a programer's.
There is a few things you forgetting -> server maintenance, requires people, buying new stuff. The website to seel the e-books, someone needs to be paid to do it (and again, both software / hardware maintenance).
And then taxes, building to house all that, people for support, and so on. Putting e-books on a server, in itself, don't cost much. It's everything that goes around.
I quite agree about the anti piracy software
