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Originally Posted by mikecook
As for cheaper books, I just don't see how this could happen. How much less do you think it costs to produce a book in e instead of p? I would not be surprised if it costs only pennies to produce a paper book, so how then can they reduce the cost of the e version any more than they already do?
Perhaps books are hugely overpriced in the first place, but that's an argument for another day ;-)
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Being in the printing/publishing industry, I can vouch that this statement isn't true. Paper books have material involved, labor that is payed for, shipping and distribution, stocking and warehousing... That doesn't involve any money going to the copyright holder... With eBooks there is no material and very little labor, very little "shipping and warehousing" and no transportation... I believe they could come down significantly on ebooks.