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Originally Posted by crossi
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Originally Posted by BadBilly
I really don't get the "the e-book should be really cheap because there's no paper" argument. The cost to print a book in quantity is small. Maybe a couple of buck each, if that, in the volumes that a major publisher will print for a best-seller.
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A couple of dollars/ebook is a significant amount. That amount is approximately how much less I'm willing to pay for the ebook version. The publishers could discount that much and still make the same profit as the paper version. If I particularly want a specific book I might be willing to split the difference with a 1 dollar discount for the ebook and let the publishers collect the extra $1 as gravy. |
Many businesses have 'gravy'.
A restaurant might charge you the same price for a bottle of pop, a glass of wine or a cup of tea. The bottled pop or wine might cost them 50% of of the selling price, and require significabt storage and shipping, where a tea bag is usually less than 2% of the selling price and requires little storage.
Do we question this and refuse to pay over 25 cents for a pot of tea? Do we get all bent out of shape, worrying that the restaurant may be making more money on tea than on sodas? Maybe some of us do.
Life is to short in my opinion, for all of these niggling comparisons.
I am in favour of paying the lowest price, and shopping around. But often I pay more for convenience or a superior product. A supermarket is generally cheaper than a corner store, but if I want only one item I might go to the corner store because it is closer, or to avoid impulse shopping, or simply because I like the store and want it to stay in business.
For ebooks, I pay the lowest price I can find, assuming I feel I can afford this price. I don't even look at the print price, because I don't want the print book.
Worrying about how much profit a seller makes on an item, would only keep me awake at night and I enjoy sleeping too much for that.
Helen