Thread: ANOTHER "Why Do Ebooks Cost So Much?" ARTICLE
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Old 09-01-2010, 05:36 PM   #30
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Always fun to see price breakdowns comparing ebooks to print that totally ignore DRM:
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an ebook at a $12.99 price point:

$12.99 Suggested retail price
$9.09 Wholesale proceeds to publisher
$0.00 Production, storage & shipping
$0.50 Pre-press: cover design, typesetting and copy-editing
$0.78 Marketing
$3.25 Author royalties
$4.57 Publisher’s gross margin
So... how much does DRM cost, out of that $12.99 book? Is that lumped into the fifty cent design costs?
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