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Originally Posted by ficbot
But a portion nevertheless, accounting for, by the publisher's own repeated estimations, 10-15% of the cost. So ebook customers imho are right to expect the price to reflect this lower production cost.
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Where does the 10% figure come from? Is that the cost of just ink, paper, assembly - the physical product? Is it for all books averaged, or just hardcovers or just paperbacks (not likely). Surely that does not include shipping, paying the clerk to physically unpack and stock shelves, pay the shelf space in the B&M store, pay the checkout counter clerk's wages, pay for return of unsold copies, etc. On a $15 paperback, that would amount to just $1.50 per book for everything over and above the author's cut, editing and printing. Admittedly, these costs would be somewhat lower for an online operation like Amazon. The real question is: can we rely on "publisher's repeated estimations" for those numbers, or does the truth lie elsewhere? I have no idea, just sayin ... an eBook should not be priced the same as a pBook.
And we have enough dead horses already, so I cease and desist.
