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Originally Posted by apbschmitz
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.
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Printing in quantity is not that expensive.
Shipping is bulk and even mail has a reduced price book rate.
For paperbacks, returns are the covers only, not the entire book. Which tells you how much the actual book is worth to the publisher.