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Old 01-29-2020, 02:25 PM   #164
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
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.
Thank you for link. I wasn't sure how to take your "fairly small" comment.
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