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Old 03-29-2016, 01:41 PM   #217
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
It costs more for the pBook than it does for the eBook. Even if it cost the exact same to make the eBook and the pBook, it cost to ship the pBook. So that then raises the cost. So there is no reason for the eBook to cost the same as the pBook. The eBook should always cost less because the cost is less to make the eBook.
You're making the false assumption that manufacturing costs are a significant proportion of the total cost of releasing a book. They are actually an extremely small component of the overall cost. Plus, of course, there's absolutely no reason to suppose that the publisher has to set the same profit margin on ebook and paper versions of the same book.
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