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Originally Posted by astra
One more prove that printing is a lot more expensive than e-thing and ebooks prices are overprices deliberately by greedy publishers.
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We *know* this despite the unconvincing attempts of various interested parties to prove otherwise. If the content/editing/ was the major cost, the model of 25$ hc priced 3 times higher than original mmpb would not make sense, since the cost is the same for content/editing for a mmpb and for a hc.
And again I talk about *original* mmpb which do quite a lucrative business, so the argument that mmpb are a second edition so in hc you pay for time-value is moot...
Ebook prices are high because the industry is geared towards that, not because of intrinsic costs. Only powerful external factors will bring them down, the way p2p brought music prices down