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Originally Posted by HarryT
Ebooks, though, are not like physical widgets, where most of the cost is in manufacturing. The overwhelming majority of the cost of an ebook is not its reproduction cost (which is as close to zero as makes no difference) but the up-front costs of actually creating it, which costs have to be recouped via subsequent sales. In many cases, lowering prices will not significantly increase sales, thus the unit price is mandated by the expected lifetime sales.
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I'm not going to bother arguing with you Harry, that on past experience. There are plenty of product examples where the up front costs are much higher than those of ebooks (especially fiction) and cost of purchase is very low. You seem, in your last sentence, to believe that ebook pricing is of a "cost plus" nature, which if it is so clearly indicates that the market for ebooks is heavily protected as I have said.
Just exercise your mind by opening your viewpoint beyond abusing your "scum", having copyright enforcement punishing even "innocents" who unwittingly circumvent rights (as you claimed in a post some time back), and that ebooks are somehow different to everything else in the world. I'll leave you to it.