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Old 11-05-2006, 09:58 PM   #62
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Originally Posted by NatCh
I disagree, slayda, with the notion that there aren't any retail costs for e-books. Even if the Pub or Author, for that matter decides to sell the e-books themselves, they'll have to have some infrastructure to handle that. Even if they purchase pre-made e-commerce package and run it off-the-shelf, there'll be the cost of the package and hardware to run it on, and folks to keep it all running, etc.

Would it be greatly reduced? Surely, but it'd still be there.
What I meant, Nathan, was that the muptiple retail stores could be elliminated. Ebooks would, IMO, be web based stores. Yes there would still be some retail cost but much reduced.

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