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Originally Posted by teh603
Wait, how are the costs of printing and shipping only 10~20% of the cost of a printed book?
Take the raw document, run it through a data processing engine like Smashwords and Bookie Jar have, and then five or ten minutes later you have ebooks in all major formats and probably the minor ones as well. What you're *not* having to pay for is paper, ink, people to run the printing machines, amortization on those printing machines, glue, the guy who runs the binding machine, amortization on the binding machine, the guy who packs the books into shipping cartons, the shipping cartons themselves, each stage of shipping (and believe me, that can add up), customs fees if you print overseas, and a hella lot of other stuff.
Stuff that adds up quickly. Now, where are your numbers?
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My point is that whatever the print costs are, they play a small role in determining the price of a book- and did so long before there even was an Internet. When the book comes out, who the author is, whether its hardcover, trade paperback , or MMPB-all those play a far bigger role.