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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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.
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I would imagine, though, that most people buying the PDF would be buying it instead of the hardback, so the publisher would only be receiving a quarter of the income for that sale. That's probably not economically viable for them.