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Originally Posted by replica145
Regardless of how accurate it is, it doesn't change the basics. There is no printing, shipping, distributing. They charge more for the product. It's not a far stretch to know their profits go way up from such methods. They do less work for more money.
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So?
For decades publishers charged $20 more for a hardback than a paperback, despite the fact that the hardback only cost $2 more to produce. Publishing has never based on a cost-plus-10% model, and I don't think that will happen anytime soon.
If an author is charging more for an e-book than you want to pay, don't buy it. It's as simple as that...and if too many people won't pay the price, it will change. Quasi-Aristotelian ideas of a "just price" have no application to consumer goods in a modern economy.