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Originally Posted by sirbruce
The same costs you were talking about. The costs that are the same whether you're making a pbook or an ebook. You were assuming that since one was making a pbook and an ebook, pbooks would absord the entire overhead and ebooks would have little additional. My point was you have to spread the overhead cost over both pbooks and ebooks; if you try to make pbooks cover the whole cost you run into other problems.
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No, I was assuming costs are the same for both--except that
1) Ebooks don't have a print cost, and probably no distribution/storage cost, or if they do, it's so tiny as to be ignorable,
2) If both a pbook & ebook are being produced, cost of editing, cover art, author advance, and potentially a few other aspects, should be considered split between them, not duplicated for both.
Cost for formatting-for-final-production is mostly duplicated; format to print is different from format to ebook. Cost of advertising may or may not be duplicated.
Unless there's a claim that ebook formatting is more expensive than pbook formatting (needing to make bookmarks and such), there's no way that ebooks can be expected to have the same cost to create as pbooks. There are a few production costs that just don't exist for ebooks, and the only one that exists for ebooks and not pbooks is DRM.
To which, the easy solution is "stop paying good money to make your products less useful to the customers!"