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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
There've been a few of those; they're all disingenuous. They list the breakdown for editorial, formatting, etc. side by side... but they don't say whether the ebook costs are *in addition to* the print costs.
If they're already publishing a print edition, they don't have to pay the editors twice; it's a matter of something between minutes and a few hours to format the book properly for ebook release.
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Of you can look at it and say they are already paying the editor for the eBook, so the paper book should be cheaper...
But you rightly identify the issue; there are fixed costs and variable costs and in all the analyses. they treat everything on a per book basis as if it were variable. Indeed, I would suggest that very few costs related to book production are variable. Even printing is done on a batch basis, so a longer run is cheaper per book.