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Originally Posted by HarryT
In situations where the bookstore discounts the paper book it is not the case that the publisher is charging more, although it is of course true that the publisher is preventing the bookstore from charging less.
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Given the much higher margins on ebooks, the publisher is actually making more per copy off the ebook than the print copy even when they sell at the same price.
(PBook margins runs 25% of cover and the wholesale is typically 55% of cover. So a £10 pbook grosses £5.50 and nets £2.50. eBooks gross 70% of cover/sale and net a bit over 50% of cover/sale so any ebook selling for over half the cover price of the pbook is bringing in more net money than the print edition.
Beyond that it's all a matter of semantics and what the definition of is is.
