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Old 05-01-2011, 05:03 PM   #69
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Originally Posted by Hellmark View Post
Plus, per unit, it is arguably not that much more expensive for them to make and ship paperbooks than ebooks. Most of the cost is in the editing, lay out, etc. I've heard estimates of it costing somewhere in the range of 70 cents to $1 for printing, storage, and shipping of a paper book.
I don't believe that for a second. We heard for ages about how high the physicals costs of book were. Now that the physical costs have been eliminated for ebooks they suddenly aren't so significant after all. Nope, not buying it.
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