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Originally Posted by queentess
Someone somewhere (publisher? someone really good at estimating things?) that the physical medium makes up only about 10% of a book's cost (my Google ability is failing me right now, but I read about it here on MR).
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I bet that these costs are a lot higher for color and pictures than for plain text. That should influnce the percentage.
When I buy a book of €150 and only €15 is for the printing costs (it should be higher for many scientific books because of the many pictures and the volume but for the sake of the argument) then where does that other €135 goes to? I am more than willing to give the writer a decent fee, I also have no problem with the publisher making a small profit but €135...?
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Originally Posted by queentess
I once bought (maybe 15 years ago) a $30 brand new hardcover Stephen King book, which I promptly read without the dust jacket (who reads with those things on?), and it stained my hands black for days. It was also one of the last hardcovers I bought.
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Originally Posted by queentess
Do tell, what is a "scientific book"?
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Books for mathematics and for subjects which use the scientific method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Method
These books often ar quite thick and contain a lot of pictures which should make them more expensive but not that much more expensive.
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Also, let me fix this for you:
"PUBLISHER charges as much, if not more, for scientific ebooks as for the real scientific books"
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I just used Amazon as a reference, I don't blame Amazon.