Thread: ANOTHER "Why Do Ebooks Cost So Much?" ARTICLE
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Old 09-01-2010, 05:09 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by CyGuy View Post
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
I don't think anyone really claims that there is no costs associated with ebooks, its just we think that the publishers are deliberately overestimating them in order to jack the prices up. Baen, is able to publish Mission of Honor as an ebook for $6.00 while it is still selling the hardback. Yet Baen has been one of the most successful publishers both in ebooks and paper books in the last few years. Now why is it impossible for other publishers to do it for less than that $10?

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