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But in fact, for a brand new bestselling hardcover, all of the costs associated with print, from the printing to the shipping to the distribution to the warehousing to returns, amount to a mere few dollars per copy, depending on the size of the print run.
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A few dollars is mere pennies! Granted, were talking hundred of pennies, but pennies is pennies.
If the cost of dealing with the paper is a few dollars, we should expect the e-book to cost a few dollars less than the paper book, not cost the same or even more. "Of course we charge more for the e-book! It only costs a few dollars more for the paper, so we charge you more not to use the paper!"