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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Then why hasn't Baen gone bankrupt? For ten years, they've been selling ebooks cheaper than paperbacks. You'd think that, if the breakdowns were accurate, Baen would feel horribly squeezed by their ebook sales, rather than casually saying, "here, have another CD's worth of free ebooks."
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The breakdowns I've seen put most of the expense with marketing, editing, layout, etc that are shared by both print and ebook. Those are fixed expenses, and not a per unit cost, and so after a while, they've made back that money and its gravy from there.