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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Well we all seem to be saying the same thing; in the post you previously objected to from LeeH, it was stipulated that *aside* from warehousing and printing, ebooks cost the same. Your response seemed to dispute that, but later in your math you did say "if", which I missed the first time, and now you're clearly saying you agree that the costs are shared between ebooks and pbooks, so there's really no disagreement here.
Ebooks do not cost as much as pbooks to produce, but they still cost a substantial amount, not $0. Ebook prices have to cover that cost in their pricing.
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Certainly eBooks do have production costs. Typically these days there is a need to support multiple formats which means multiple tools and often they require difference in the source material which require maintaining multiple sources with source control tools to manage it. There are IT costs to maintain the computers and upgrade the software as features are added or changed. This may require rebuilding the books. There is manpower required to do the production and QA the results. There is even costs associated with saving all the files and maintaining the computers. It is certainly not zero. If DRM is present there are even more production costs. There are also support costs for dealers.
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