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Old 06-17-2011, 12:49 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
That's not necessarily true. If the price of eBooks is driven down to the point where it's uneconomical to publish them, the result will be fewer eBooks. What's needed is a price point at which the publisher and author can both make a reasonable profit, and the consumer isn't being ripped off.
What they (publishers) need to do is be more realistic about how much of a writer's income they take in return for the one-off jobs they carry out. If they reduced their take to about the same amount as the writer gets, so that it was a 50/50 split between writer and publisher, that would enable ebook prices to fall to the amount most people would pay without thinking. It is their expectation of getting 4 times as much from the sale of an ebook as the writer gets that is inflating the price to such a large extent.
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