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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared
Haven't the publishing houses been trying to convince us that the reason an ebook costs us as much as a pbook is that the costs of printing, storing, distributing and returning of pbooks is negligible?
Doesn't seem all that negligible now.
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It's reasonable that costs
per unit are negligible when in sufficiently large quantity, and if the number of units shrinks, the impact is more acutely felt.
As the commercials say, shipping a ton of cargo across country by freight train is dirt cheap. That's AS LONG AS THE TRAIN IS FULL with a couple thousand tons of cargo! If that same train had to take just ONE TON of cargo, it would not be cheap!