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Originally Posted by John F
Any chance you could share the data?
Doing a quick Google, printing costs do seem significant ( all I could find was small runs), and than there is shipping, returns, ...
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It's been discussed and posted here a couple of times specifically by someone who worked for a publisher at one time. As far as small runs go, yes there is a reason that indies charge $18 for a paperback copy and $5 for an ebook copy. Small runs are expensive. I posted at least one article at the time, but can't find it at the moment. Yes, it's hard to get past all the self-publishing advise ads in google. You will probably have more success digging through the threads here to find it.
I dug around a bit and found this article. It's not the same article that I posted then, but it give a concrete example.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/bo...lishing-ebooks
basically, in 2011, a hardback cost $3.50, to print and distribute a hardback book. That's both the printing cost and the cost to ship the book to various bookstores.