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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Numerous news sources, the most polished being:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/bu.../01ebooks.html
General interest is clearly going to be different than K-12 education which is different than higher education.
However it's entirely plausible that the higher education market may be more predictable than general interest, which would reduce returns and other costs.
There are a lot of things I don't know about the ins and outs of higher ed textbooks. That said I'd be downright stunned if 50% of the cost of a $150 science textbook was just printing and distribution. |
That article doesn't state the print run size for the stated costs. I imagine a percentage, and proportional copy editing/etc prices would vary drastically between Harry Potter numbers, and a graduate level archeology textbook.
Without some sort of volume to relate the costs to, it's pretty worthless as a citation.
Got anything else from your numerous sources?