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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Figure a few dollars. Remember that the price you pay is the retail price. Your retailer will purchase books from a distributor, who it turn gets them from the publisher (or if your retailer is one of the big chains, get them directly from the publisher), and their price will be 50%-60% of what you pay.
Also recall that it isn't just paper, ink, and printing costs. There are distribution and warehousing costs on pbook editions that need to be counted in as well.
I'll ask around a bit, and try to get a relative percentage breakdown between the costs you will have in any book, electronic or paper, and the costs added by the paper edition. But offhand, I think many folks have too optimistic a view of how cheap an ebook can be.
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Dennis
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The interesting thing I found at BooksJustBooks.com right now (I haven't visited them for a while.) is that a 3,000 copy run of a basic MMPB was $0.65 each! That's for a single-color-text 5.5" x 8.5" size for about 120-160 pages. Not a big book, but still! So figure that a 10,000 copy print run would drop the per-copy 'cost-to-print-and-bind' at less than $0.40.
However, as you and I both pointed out, distributor and retailer margins soak up a LOT of the cover price!
Derek