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Originally Posted by rhadin

Please provide the independent source that supports your statement quoted above.

Originally Posted by Hrafn

Hachette's (or any publisher's) incremental cost for ebooks is zero (there is no printing, distribution or similar incremental costs) -- all their ebook production costs are fixed. Each additional ebook sold is therefore pure incremental profit for them (they do of course have to cover their fixed costs from this in order to break even).

Or in other words rhadin can be his own independent source to verify. To test, @rhadin, please perform the following thought experiment:

Go to your computer's file browser, and copy a file to another location. Then report back:

Did it cost you any money to do so?

Originally Posted by rhadin

So then, you are saying, the statement is not true, that there are costs and all is not profit.

I am saying you clearly have no idea what the heck I said.

I never said a book costs nothing to produce, I said ebooks unlike pbooks have a per-unit cost of exactly nothing.

Thank you, DuckieTigger.

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

All color mine, not in originals.






Seriously? First you quote out of context a reply to a reply (in red), then to make your point you conveniently omit the sentence right after (in green). Then you get explained again the meaning of your out of context quote (by somebody else), and all of a sudden that makes you think you are right in the first place?

What is lacking is your reading comprehension, or what is worse, you knew exactly what you were doing by misrepresenting words for your own advantage. Go back to the original, the reply to your own post:



It simply means that for an ebook to be profitable overall all it needs is pay for creation, which is fixed. Once that happens that ebook never has a chance to reduce or eliminate the profit overall at any cost it is sold at (even for free). A pbook will never ever be profitable if each unit is sold below manufacturing cost, no matter how low the overhead is.

Which is contrary to your belief that a set number (e.g. 100,000) of sales is needed to break even (Post # 65). For ebooks it is a set number of $ to break even, not # of sales. Each ebook sale is profit in the amount of the price the publisher is selling it. All of that profit first goes toward paying for the overhead (creation + advance), and then a certain % amount of that profit from additional sales goes to publisher as overall profit for them. The rest is going to the author. It is not rocket science.