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Originally Posted by Notre Dame
The bottom line really, is that publishers don't want it to change, but are going to have to, and they will learn producing hardbacks will become a niche market so they'll learn to cost it separately. Nobody here seems to have mentioned the huge capital investment in static stock and the huge cost of warehousing, without factoring actually delivering the book to the shops & distributor costs too. The ebook is Amazon's dream, not the publishers'.
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The capital investment in static stock isn't as large as you assume. Nor is warehousing and distribution.
Print/bind/warehouse/distribute come to perhaps 20% of the expense in an average book budget. All of the things that happen in acquiring the book in the first place and preparing it for publication loom far larger.
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Dennis