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Originally Posted by Shack70
People think ebooks should be cheaper because some of the cost of making a paper book is missing. No paper, no warehouse to store the books, no brick and mortar store to sell it at, and they make one copy and distribute it vs. thousands of copies.
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Publishing corporations say that those only account for 10% of the costs of bringing a book to market. What they don't seem to want to tell us is the percentage that covers re-selling. The second hand market is massive, and any new book will need to take that into account in its pricing. Whereas with ebooks there is (in theory at least) only one reader per purchase.
But the reason why real books are often cheaper than ebooks is stores discounting them heavily just to get rid of them and make space for more books. Storage isn't really a problem for ebooks, even if they only sell 1 a month there's no reason to discount them.