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Originally Posted by MV64
Ebooks shouldn't need ads to become cheaper. Without the cost of production and supplies they shouldn't be charging what they do charge for many new e-books.
Ads should be nowhere near ebooks.
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My cost-per-book from Baen/Webscriptions is right around $3.40. I've purchased over 500 books from them over the past 9 years. This is, by the way, net cost after the effect of bundles and counting multiple purchases* only once.
So we'd really only "need" ads to reduce the cost of eBooks down below $3.50 each (or so). Assuming that other publishers were equally clue-full, of course.
Xenophon
*Because Baen does a bundle of each months output, they sometimes have repeat books. This happens when they issue a paperback this month (say) that was a hardcover last year. To keep the bundles a good deal, they guarantee at least four books never before in bits in each month's bundle.