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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. |
The difference in price between a paperback and a hard back should be minimal if this is the case, yet a paperback is frequently less than 1/3 the cost of the hard bound.
Either the margin on the hard back is huge or there is a big difference in printing, paper, and transportation between the two.