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Originally Posted by stonetools
Well, Charles Stross says that ebooks coist almost as much to produce as pbooks, so if you buy his analysis on DRM , etc, you should be agreeing with him on ebook costs
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My understanding is that the physical process of buying the paper and printing those book blocks will cost around $2-3 per unit, or around $10-15,000 ... roughly as much as the other production costs, and the author's advance.
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So, um, they don't cost the same to produce, and the paper portion
is a significant chunk of the costs. That seems to be the exact opposite of what you think he said?
And this analysis ignores, as they all seem to do, that you have to pay to print and ship
all the copies, many of which will end up being destroyed rather than sold. So the costs should be apportioned over just the copies that actually sell, to get your per-unit costs.