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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 (, , 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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You are ignoring shipping, storage and handling as well as unsold books.
My main point still stands. Once the book is digitized (for either printing or for the eBook) it will be cheaper to get the eBook completed and in the customer's hands. So it definitely should be cheaper for the customer with the eBook and the authors get their money as usual.
As for authors that don't sell very well, it will be cheaper for the publisher to put their work into eBooks and much less has to go in the landfill.