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Originally Posted by inkyness
A lot of the costs to produce a book come from the labor involved in writing, editing, proofreading, and formatting, as well as sometimes advertising. I don't think publishers save as much money as many people think with ebooks.
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I've seen different figures for the printing, delivery, warehousing, etc costs but they're all around 10% to 15%. The biggest "cost" for a real book would be in distributor and retailer discounts, those are about 60% of the retail price. Assuming corporations get the same deal as independents, the standard cut for ebook distribution is 30%. Nobody has ever said how much, but there will also be a percentage of real book prices to cover the losses from 2nd hand sales. Ebooks have no 2nd hand market, but you could probably argue that the figure to cover piracy would be about the same.