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Originally Posted by jlmwrite
What absolute hogwash!
So all the costs for printing and distribution of a physical product --from paper to ink to machine maintenance, giant warehouses to store physical books, and then the costs of transporting those books from the warehouses to distributors and into the hands of booksellers -- are CHEAPER than formatting an e-book once and storing it on a server that has almost a zero-cost associated with the electronic distribution?
Puh-lease!
I wish Amazon and B&N would put some heat on the publishers -- but then that might upset their traditional book sales model too...
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Well - you have to pay for that expensive transport to your computer, I mean, internet costs are SO much more than running a big truck, aren't they? Oh - YOU pay the internet costs. Well, and of course it's much more expensive to convert an ebook to 3 or 4 different formats than pay for a whole printing factory isn't it?
Are these people for real? Do they actually think we are so stupid? Anyone who can count to 10 on their fingers could work out the cost-savings in production of an e-book over a paper book.