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Originally Posted by pwalker8
So how much does it cost for an author to keep his ebook in print? For an individual author and individual book, hardly anything. Depending on the ebook store, the overall cost might be some amount of money, I'm sure Amazon's monthly bill to keep the ebook store up and running might be a fair amount of money depending on how you do your accounting. For a couple of authors running their own website with a paypal store (as more than a few authors do), less than $100 per month. I don't believe that an individual author publishing on Amazon is actually charged anything on an ongoing basis. They only pay a percentage when a book is sold.
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Yes, it looks cheap to do it yourself with a WordPress site and a PayPal account but this hides the truth. Running something this way may not cost a lot out of pocket but it costs you your time spent playing sysadmin and accountant and all of the other things a publisher or distributor does for you instead of being an author.