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Originally Posted by taustin
According to authors and industry types I've seen talk about the business of publishing, the cost of putting ink on paper and getting it in to the store is about 10% of the retail price. So, really, no, they don't actually save all that much on ebooks.
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Lord knows I'm no accountant, but I wonder about this. There's the cost of printing and shipping, warehousing, shipping to distributors who then ship to stores, receiving returns of unsold books, pulping, all the related accounting and other steps I'm probably not imagining. Seems like more than $2.50 or whatever per unit.