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Originally Posted by rhadin
So then, you are saying, the statement is not true, that there are costs and all is not profit.
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An eBooks costs X amount to make the eBook. Once that money is recovered, that part of the price of the eBook is pure profit. So lets say we have an eBook at $14.99 and $4 goes to the cost of making the eBook. Let's say it's $100 to make the eBook. That means that the 26th eBook sold would be making $4 clear in profit since the cost to make the eBook have been recovered.
The way I see it, this fugly non-mass market very expensive paperback format gained momentum when agency was in play. That way, the publisher could say that the price of the paperback is still high so the eBook price doesn't have to drop much if at all. If they went mass-market at the usual $7.99, then the price of the eBook would have to drop to match. But keep the paperback price high and the eBook could then stay high.
This is the BPH's way of gouging the hell of of the customers and not giving a damn abut them.