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Originally Posted by DNSB
Last author I talked to, her contract with the publisher did not have royalties based on the retail price of the book in any form. The royalties for ebook, paperback, tradepaper back and hardcover editions were defined in the contract. Any discounts between the publisher and retailer never mind the retailer and customer did not affect those numbers.
And again, since while many of the fixed costs are the same for an ebook or a deadtree book and there are other costs that only apply to deadtree books while the other costs for a ebook are pretty minimal, it is hard (IMNSHO) to justify pricing ebooks at the same price as paperbacks.
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That is funny. You are just giving the perfect example why the publisher is mostly interested in keeping the prices high. The higher the price, the bigger the profit margin as a smaller percentage needs to go to the author in royalties.