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Originally Posted by Russell Brooks
With print books: Ink, paper, book cover, shipping, warehouse storage, shelf placement (or in-store book pyramid) costs.
Ebooks: none of the above.
There's no excuse as to why an ebook should cost as much as a print book. They're much less costly to produce. Print books cost less than $3 to make. How much does an ebook cost to make in your opinion?
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Actual
manufacturing costs for a major trade publisher are roughly .50-$1 for a mass market PB, $1-$2 for a trade paperback, and $2-$4 for a hardcover (as of 2008, but they probably haven't gone up enormously since then.)
Manufacturing is the print/bind steps above. Warehousing/distribution is another matter.
Print/bind/warehouse/distribute amount to perhaps 20% of the total budget of the average book.
Most costs are incurred in the process of acquiring the book and and putting it into publishable form, and occur
before the book is published in
any format.
Those are the costs that must be covered in an ebook publication.
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Dennis