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Originally Posted by HarryT
I strongly suspect that it would not be economically feasible to sell eBook for a quarter the price of the printed book. Printing is a relatively small component of the price of a book; the main cost for a book such as this will be in the layout and editing, and that's there for an eBook just as much as for a hardback.
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All the editing would (or at least should, I know they don't bother fixing typos in ebooks) be done for the hardback. So either ebooks would be subsidising the price of hardbacks, or the editing cost is being counted twice. Ebooks aren't like audio books, where there would be additional costs in producing them beyond what has already been done. The cover is usually the same (or missing), and in an ideal world the text would be the same too.
Most of the cost of a book
should be the fee paid to the writer, but that's a different argument. If that were the case I think less people would object so much.