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Originally Posted by Indio777
I guess it's maybe because not that many copies are printed in comparison to "commercial" publishers and they are trying to recover the cost of publishing a title?
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I would certainly agree that the lower quantities produced by a University press would explain the relatively higher price of the paper version. Lower quantities require a higher price to recover the book production costs.
It’s not just the raw material of paper that costs the money it’s the time and expense of film and plate making, press time, folding, stitching, glueing, binding and physical distribution.
It would also explain why the e-book version is comparable with the price of other titles.