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Old 04-06-2009, 04:56 PM   #68
Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by sirbruce View Post
One problem with your analysis, Elfwreck, is you're missing the assumption -- not a necessarily true assumption, mind you, but one which must be made for business reasons -- that every ebook sale is one less pbook sale. So you can't just ignore the pbook overhead. If ebook sales were purely additive, then you could. There's no doubt that ebook does stimulate demand and that ebooks are bought by people who would never buy the pbook. But nevertheless, you can't just assume the cost of overhead doesn't exist; Angry Robot doesn't want ebooks to be an afterthought.
You lost me. (I don't actually speak "business;" I speak algebra, which almost substitutes for an awareness of business accounting. At least, I can thoroughly confuse the sales reps I work with by throwing numbers at them.)

What pbook overhead? (Not being sarcastic. Confused.) Is it something that only exists on the pbook side? Or something that has equivalent ebook costs?
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