Thread: The Price of Ebooks!
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Old 04-13-2008, 06:25 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by JimConnell View Post
It seems to me that the price of e-books is high.

Given that the marginal cost of e-books is almost 0, then the standard royalty to the author plus a fair profit for the publisher and the distributor should be the right price.
yes, absolutely.

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There are no costs of printing and binding, so it seems to me that the standard price of $9.99 for a Kindle best seller is making someone (probably not the author) a lot of money.
it does seem so doesn't it ?
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