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Old 06-12-2011, 02:45 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by harold1066 View Post
Yes prices in the UK did increase by quite a lot. The problem is there are no paper mills in the UK anymore, so all paper has to be imported.

I work in a printers and this has had a big effect on us.
But publishers want it both ways. When printing costs go up, they use that as an excuse to raise prices. When printing costs disappear (along with shipping and returns) as they do with ebooks, they portray those costs as "insignificant."

The real price savings to readers will come when publishers disappear.

Oh, wait. For many of us, they already have.
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