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Originally Posted by starrigger
It's definitely not "a few seconds" as someone earlier said.
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Preparing manuscript for a publishing as an e-book can be *very* quick ...
... once you have done all that intensive work needed to prepare manuscript for your in-house format for p-book publishing.
And this is what people are referring to. We have been talking about selling an e-book for higher price than paperback or, in some cases, even a fancy hardback. The work for preparation the manuscript to a publishable format is the same, yet with hardback you have many significant additional costs:
- paper,
- printing,
- transport,
- warehousing,
- costs for running a brick and mortar store (rent, salaries, heating, ...)
- buying back unsold books from brick and mortar stores
and many others.
With e-book the additional costs are:
- rent for a server somewhere in your ISP server room (you would be surprised how cheap you can get that)
- price of some e-commerce software (you only need to pay this once and than you can sell virtually unlimited number of books. Here again you can get the basic functionality *very* cheap (**))
- salary of an administrator[s]
and OPTIONALLY
- license fees for whatever non-in-house DRM you might want to use
- maintenance fees for DRM authorization server after you stop selling the books. Here you can, of course, do what the vast majority of sellers of DRM hobbled content do when they stop selling. You can switch off the server immediately, leaving your sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers with unusable content.
(**) do not get me started about the Sony book store and their basic functionality - like searching for a book