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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Over time the overhead will get paid off, as long as people continue to buy or borrow the book. ebooks are 100% profit, the publisher can't sell at a loss.
There is no need to factor in per-book overhead, so the wisest course of action is to simply go for sheer revenue.
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Not sure I agree, people only read x books a year.
If someone normally reads 10 books a year, then dropping the price to .99 won't magically make them read 100 books per year.
Going for sheer revenue might work for an indie and you are selling a handful of books, but if you are kicking out 20k books per year, you are going to end up shooting yourself in the foot at some point.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Maybe they need to fix the pbook business.
POD might help them with that. Stop paying so much money to ship paper from point A to B.
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Perhaps, I thought that it was still cheaper to bulk print and ship rather than POD at the current quantities? I could very easily be wrong of course.