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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Fact: ebooks are cheaper to produce than paper books. Therefore, they should be priced lower than paperbooks.
At some point in time, publishers will have to accept the fact that their industry is transitioning from paper to digital. That means trimming down operations and letting people go. If they continue to play it stupid like they currently are, they'll end up like newspapers that no longer exist.
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I think you discount the labor costs that are the same regardless of if it's ebook or pbook. According to this article, by an author, the actually printing cost of an $8 pbook book is 75 cents or around 10% of the total price.
http://www.davidderrico.com/cost-bre...printed-books/