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Originally Posted by MGlitch
These seem to me to be mutually exclusive if you accept that the profit margins on ebooks versus pbooks is, relatively, narrow,
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This is wrong until proven otherwise.
it's the contrary, the profit margin difference between ebook to pbook is important, definetely not "narrow".
Even with decreased cost of printing, it's still money that each copy has to pay for, ebook has no such cost. Transport is also important as well as the number of intermediaries. (hint: wholesalers, those might be skipped but not always, also depends on countries of origin & target country)
On an ebook there's only 2 actors, the publisher & the retailer. no transport, no printing cost, almost zero cost of delivery to the end user (thanks to these days price of bandwith & given the size of an ebook, the cost to download a single copy from a website is nearly zero)
My problem here is that I have no numbers for this. I do know however that a similar business (gaming) an editor actually made 10 times more money (in his pocket) from an online digital sale versus a retail sale.