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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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There is the cost of shipping, cost of warehousing, cost of remainders. It all adds up.