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Originally Posted by pilotbob
As a software developer I have a similar issue. To "develop" a product itself can take many man years plus all the training of everyone on the team including developers, testers, writers, product managers, etc. However, once it is complete and we have the deployable files it takes maybe $1 a CD to create the container for what was perhaps millions of $'s of R&D cost. Are you going to say that the software is "worth" $1 cause that's what it cost us to create the CD copy the customer gets?
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I'm saying that to equate the price of a pBook to the price of an eBook is meaningless. The vast majority of the price of a pBook has to do with the physicalness of the pBook: the paper, the printing, the distribution, etc. None of those costs exist with an eBook.
The price of an eBook should cover the costs of creating the work, divided over the number of copies made. That price should be very small.