Thread: Charlie Stross: Publishers "Cutting their own throats"
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Old 12-01-2011, 08:40 AM   #52
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Originally Posted by taustin View Post
According to industry indisders (including the very Charlie Stross in the subject line), the publisher invests about as many man-hours in a book as the author does - hundreds or thousands. And the price of putting ink on paper and getting the finished product to the store shelf is about 10% of the total cover price. Add in a production process that isn't, as you note, optomized for ebook production, and the book version may actually cost more to produce and sell than the paper version (though it shoudn't - it should literally be one or two extra mouse clicks).
Do you mean ebook or pbook there?
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