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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
What are these costs? What are the costs of creating a book by a bestselling author that makes tons of money vs the costs of creating a book by an obscure author that sells 400 hc's?? Books are not widgets, so there is no such a thing as the cost of creating a book.
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I take it that you've never had a book published? Publishers do all sorts of work that's not immediately obviously to those who've not gone through the mill. Firstly, most books are submitted to the publisher are in no fit state to publish; the publisher employs an editor to basically get it into shape. Once it is in shape the publisher's marketting and publicity machine swings into action, and that varies drastically between a book by a "big name celeb" and "Joe Nobody".
Aside from the actual printing costs (which are pretty minimal) all these costs apply equally to eBooks as they do to pBooks.