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Originally Posted by astra
Should not it be the other way around?
3.50 to author, 2.00 to publisher and 1 to retailer?
However, if the scheme mentioned above is true, then ebooks should cost US peanuts because $3.50 (at least) will go to the distributor/retailer costs are eliminated?
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The current price structure is what's required for profitability in the bricks-and-mortar world. Not ideal, but reality.
Note that the distributor/retailer costs
are not eliminated for eBooks, although they may be reduced significantly. There's still a distributor for most eBooks. We have, however, managed to cut out one level of the distribution tree, and reduce the costs of another quite significantly. At the most successful ebook vendors, much of that savings has been passed on to the customers.
And then there's the pricing insisted on by certain large publishers who shall remain nameless...
Xenophon