Thread: Publishers still missing the point on e-book prices
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Old 12-30-2011, 09:34 PM   #472
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
None of the agency-pricing publishers have ever given a cost breakdown for paperbacks. They try very hard to pretend paperbacks don't exist when they talk about the costs of book production.
Thanks for that. I've been wondering about that for a while, every time someone complains about the cost structure it's always vs. hardbacks. Never a pb in sight. Since they grind these things out by the ton and there ARE novels that have never been in HB, does anyone have an idea what the costs for an average pb are?

There are now regularily priced pb's in the $13-15 range, which is obscene, but those things are massive usually. Very high page counts and popular authors. What would, say, a Harry Potter pb cost to make?
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