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Originally Posted by musicman2523
I think they're still way too high. They have no printing costs. ebooks should max out at 4.99 in my opinion. I just won't buy them when I can get free books from unknown authors that are really good.............not all of them but a lot of them. I'm a big sci-fi fan and i've found several that should be made into movies or series............they really are that good.
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Several others have pointed out other costs like editing and marketing, and I agree with them. But there is IMHO another huge difference with eBooks compared to paper. Warehousing. By that I mean you have to have ration space for all those copies of paper books to exist somewhere and that is always a finite space. You have to have print runs and you have to decide how big they will be and if you go over you've got to offload those copies somehow to make room for the next (hopefully more successful book), if you go under you have to get another print run (and make another guess). I would so hate to be doing that job. But this is why most paper books have quite a short shelf life.
eBooks take up no real space at all. You can have one copy on your server and sell it over and over, forever. No print runs, no warehousing, no planning. That has got to make a difference to the price (or it should).