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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Is happening, or at least close to that, with Tor eBooks in the UK.
Peter Hamilton's SciFi trade paperbacks sell with a list of £8.99-£9.99, the eBooks are selling at £3.99.
Neal Asher's have a print list of £7.99, eBooks sell at £3.95.
And I've bought several of them, which I wouldn't have done if they were priced at £6.99.
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Just curious, are those prices the list price or are they because of a retailers ability to discount? Most of the Hamilton stuff I see on the PanMacmillan site seems to have the list as paper or £1 less than paper.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Apart from the lower manufacturing cost, the other big difference is the retailer's cut. For a paper book, retailers general get 45% to 55% of the retail price. For electronic books retailers generally get at most 30% of the retail price.
That in itself should make an ebook of a $10 paper book be no more than $7.15
($10 = $5 to retailer, $5 to publisher. $7.15 = $2.15 to retailer, $5 to publisher.)
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Do we know that a 30% cut is still that case? It became the case with Agency pricing, but with Agency ending contacts are being redone and I don't think it ever became the case for non-agency stuff.