I saw this article on the Bookseller about resellers complaining about the increase in hardcover books.
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/re...s-pricing.html
After reading repeatably about how paper and binding costs are "insignificant" I was struck by the publisher's comment...
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"Where we can, we absorb additional costs without passing them on. However, the substantial rise in the cost of paper this year has forced us to increase some of our prices by around 5%–6%."
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If all the paper related costs are so insignificant and there's hardly any difference in the cost between producing a paperback versus a hard cover I had to assume the raw material cost increase must be enormous. It must have increased by 300%. I started to panic about what this was going to mean to the price of toilette paper so I did a quick search on the internet and all I could find was paper price increases between 5% and 8%. I'm starting to think that the publishers aren't being totally honest with us.
