Thread: Paper book vs ebook price
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Old 10-02-2011, 05:37 PM   #54
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by Pinecone View Post
Shipping is bulk and even mail has a reduced price book rate.
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Re: Shipping - Amazon is able to ship books via UPS for free if you order over $35 worth of books, and offer free 2 day delivery on almost everything you order for a flat $79/year. And Amazon is still able to generally offer the lowest prices available despite eating these shipping costs. This suggests that the shipping costs are tiny.

And Amazon is shipping via UPS, not a bulk shipper. Amazon's business is shipping 1 book to 1,000 people, and it is still able to have very small shipping costs. A publisher will ship 1,000 books to 1 bookstore; this is inherently even less expensive.

So - even without knowing anything about actual bulk shipping costs - it must be very cheap if you scale it.
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