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Originally Posted by LadyKate
Don't get me wrong. I don't advocate the reselling of ebooks. I just would like to see more of the mainstream publishers reflecting the lower production cost of ebooks in the price. For instance, Nalini Singh's latest novel has the ebook (available now) priced at a bit over 8 dollars more than the paperback (available in December). I could understand in a way if the price of the ebook was to drop to below the paperback price in December (a reflection of "I gotta get it NOW NOW NOW" cashing in by the publisher. I have to wonder how much of the production cost savings are actually passed on to the authors? Do they get more royalties for ebooks than paperbacks?).
I still find that ebook prices do not reflect the production, storage, transportation cost savings.
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I think that people underestimate the actual cost of putting out a quality book. If I remember correctly, publishers assign roughly $50K cost to an individual title to cover the basic overhead of putting out a book (editing, artwork, etc). Very little of that is in the physical cost of paper and printing or storage of the physical books. So the cost of a quality ebook, i.e. one that this well edited and has quality artwork, is more than people assume.