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Originally Posted by frahse
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.
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I'm not ignoring any such thing. The physical generation, storage and handling cost of paper books have come way down as a percentage of the cost of the book over the years. Amazon has driven such cost way down and Amazon is the biggest bookstore in the US. I don't think you understand exactly how Amazon does business.
Your point continues to be inaccurate. Most of the cost in a book is in the people time it take to create a quality book - writing, editing, formatting. That's why indie books that use the same business model as the main publishers (a couple books per year) tend to be priced within a dollar or two of the publishers books once they hit paperback.