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Originally Posted by HarryT
Most of the costs associated with publishing a book are the same for a paper book as they are for an eBook; you save printing costs with the eBook, of course, but printing is a relatively minor constituent in the overall cost model. We're never going to see 99p books from major publishers - it just doesn't work economically.
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I would have thought distribution and warehousing would be a bigger cost than printing. I can have a 200 page paperback printed for a unit cost of £2.20, and that's with very low quantities so for a 10,000+ print run it would be a lot lower.
Most of the cost of ebooks from proper publishers is due to the 85% cut that the publishers take, that's why independent writers can afford to undercut them so much. But the main reason you will never see 99p ebooks from them is because they don't want people to choose ebooks over paper books.