Thread: Cutting Prices is the only way to stop piracy
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Old 03-16-2011, 06:48 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by SleepyBob View Post
But to be fair, now that ebooks are marketed concurrently with hardcover books, and are a significant and growing percent of sales, shouldn't they share the burden of editing, design, and marketing costs? Even placement in B&M stores can be viewed as an advertisement for the ebook, which it benefits from.
Okay, fair enough assuming they are both released at the same time. But that still leaves ebooks with the 20% saving in distributor fee and the 10% saving in paper costs, plus (say) another 5% for warehousing and transportation.

So why are ebooks priced at or above the price of the hardback?
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