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Originally Posted by scotty1024
However, the public perception is that ebooks should cost significantly less than paper books because well, there's no paper right? And most of the cost of a book is the paper, ink and printing right?
Most of the cost of a Hilary Clinton book is: Hilary Clinton.
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The public opinion is correct.
People inside the publishing industry have told us the numbers. On that $8 paperpack, the author gets about $0.70. I would assume that for hardcovers they would get a slightly higher percentage.
But the idea that the author gets the majority of the money is pure fantasy. But as NatCh states so well:
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Originally Posted by NatCh
I will say that I think most of the cost of a David Weber or John Ringo book is most likely not David Weber or John Ringo.
On the other hand, if it were, the prices would bother me less.
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I think that most of us readers think that. If the author gets the majority of what we pay for a physical book, the prices would bother us less.
And I think that I am correct in saying that it bothers us even more when places like eReader ask us to pay hardcover prices for an eBook - and we can be pretty sure that the author doesn't see any extra money from that eBook sale.
That's why I believe that publishers are irrelevant in the eBook market. Authors can take their books directly to us readers, or through a low-cost intermediary like Fictionwise, and make more per book than paper books - and still charge us readers less than pBooks.