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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
I thought royalty rates on ebooks were higher? I read somewhere that the industry standard was about 25% (7-12% for paperbacks).
That probably wipes out any difference in cost from the publishers point of view.
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I believe that publishers have been trying to get authors to sign up for 25% of the publisher's net.
The big difference, apart from the cost of the physical item, is the wholesale discount. For paperbacks, the discount is between 50 and 60%. For ebooks, it's around 30%.