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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
Uh, no. I don't understand your comment at all.
I'm saying that publishing companies have to pay editors, line editors, proofreaders, marketers and artists, even if all they're publishing are e-books. Publishers have overhead when they publish an e-book. Saying that e-books should be cheap because they don't have printing costs is not realistic, because paper and transportation is not the biggest cost a publihser has. |
When do they ever just publish ebooks? My guess would be that most authors are using some type of word processor to write their books. They have to be edited and proofed before being sent to the printing press anyway--there's no extra work to make an ebook out of it.
My biggest argument is that I don't actually 'own' the ebook and can't legally give it to my neighbor to read. I can do that with the paper version, so why shouldn't the ebook be worth less? I've never known anybody that wouldn't lend me a paper book to read once they were done with it.
I'm not one of those people that can afford to spend a few hundred dollars on ebooks every year.