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Originally Posted by gmw
Why?
If you are not going to argue with my comment: "The price of a book is independent of the book's production effort. Fairness simply isn't part of the equation." Why should we expect ebook prices to be at all related to production costs when paper book prices are not?
It's really that simple.
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That makes no sense whatsoever.
A book is written, it is then valued ... or valued beforehand.
Then you have two formats.
The physical format has more costs involved, that need to be attached to determine the profit, because it is gonna naturally cost more to provide.
So lets say the author writes a book and wants $5 in return.
That's the value plus $5 for each ebook.
And value plus $5 plus production and provider costs for each physical version.
That's taking the value as including editing & artwork costs, and production just being printing related costs, and providing being storage and transport etc costs.
What's so hard to understand about that?
P.S. I find the notion that a book is sold for a price that has no bearing on what it costs to produce as being totally nonsensical. Everything has a base price, how else do you determine profit? How do you make enough money to cover costs and pay royalties etc?
P.S.S. Of course a lot of the value and return to the author is often pre-determined before the book is even written, and all part of some deal.