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Originally Posted by frahse
Obvious!
The author gets paid for his content in both cases.
There should be more available with the ebook after the savings from not having a lumberjack cut the tree, hauling the tree to the pulp mill, making the paper, making ink, printing and binding the book, shipping the book to the warehouse, storing it, shipping the book to the dealer, then to the customer.
My estimate is that at a minimum half the cost of the book will be saved by going with the ebook.
Now at this point the author can *dicker about the price all he wants.
*dicker - to deal, swap, or trade with petty bargaining; bargain; haggle, etc.
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The break out of the pricing of a paper book has been posted here before, only a small percentage of the cost of a paper book is associated with the physical act of printing the book, i.e. paper and ink. Roughly half goes to the retailer, most of the publisher costs are associated with basic business expenses and the cost of actually creating the text (author, editor, artwork, etc...) and making up for other authors not covering the cost of their book. The last is the expense that most people tend to either ignore or discount.