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Originally Posted by Dutchbook
It is not as simple as putting an ebook on a website and you're done like if you're uploading something on Mobileread.
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When you are an Amazon or BOL.COM, yes, it pretty much
is that simple (if it isn't, you don't have your internal ducks in a row!) . The online infrastructure you mention which you need to sell anything (be it bits or tangible stuff) is already in place.
When you have nothing, building it isn't free, no. But even then you need that infrastructure anyway, whether you sell bits or paper. So paper still costs more to handle.
External factors may skew things (like the Dutch VAT difference between ebooks and paper books) but from a pure cost perspective ebooks always win. The only question is by how much, and the numbers I have seen bandied about point at 25-30% (which, actually, is roughly the price difference between ebook and paper I see for Dutch books when both editions exist).