Originally Posted by emellaich
Well, it seems to me that we've missed the obvious response.
She is paying (converted from pounds to US$):
- $6.54 for production
- $4.08 for shipping
Because she does such small print runs (I assume it also affects her ability to negotiate shipping).
So, there is this new thing out there where publishers don't have to pay anything for printing and shipping is free. I'm not sure what its called, but I read about it on this web site called mobileread once. Somehow they use that fancy-schmancy electronic stuff to send books to these little handheld reader thingys. I'm not sure what the thingy's are called though ...
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