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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Her post compares per-book costs for pbooks (card catalog info, print-on-demand setup costs) with one-time costs for ebooks (photshop upgrade, eBook studio software). She includes proofing & editing costs as the same for both--which they are, if they're done separately; if both are combined, one of those numbers plummets. I've no idea if a single ISBN covers both a pbook & ebook released at the same time.
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Generally no, you want a new isbn for each format.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
From there, the inequity grows; each pbook sold costs more in print, storage, and shipping; each ebook sold costs none of those. If sold online, both have the same accounting hassles.
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There are distribution costs for eBooks, especially if they have DRM.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
(Lack of security: Unwillingness to attempt to find & prosecute book pirates--surely if someone were distributing several thousand "stolen" pbooks, they'd try to track the person down. Lack of PR skills: publishers/authors that customers like, are less likely to get ripped off.)
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That's fine, but then you have to add the cost of finding and prosecuting the pirates to the fixed costs of the title. Lawyers don't work for free.