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Originally Posted by HarryT
A publisher, however, will know with a reasonable degree of accuracy how many copies of a book it is likely to sell. Prices have to set to recover all the "up front" costs for the book - editing, publicity, and so on and so forth - and to make a reasonable profit on top of that. Printing is a very, very minor component of the cost of a book (for a paperback novel, at least); the overwhelming majority of the costs of book production apply to an eBook just as they do to a paper book.
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Paper book distribution has a lot more cost then printing. It's very inefficient. Printing costs are just a piece of the picture. Shipping, warehousing, inventory, brick and mortar retail stores, deciding how many to ship where, lost sales because you didn't have inventory, returns, wages and benefits for all the people associated with the above....
Yes there are one time costs associated with producing an electronic book but paper is not a small piece of the overall cost. This isn't about "educating the public" it's about trying to deceive the public. People understand the costs and expect the price to be much cheaper then what they pay for a physical book, not the fictional price that the publishers stamp on the cover.