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Originally Posted by fugazied
People believe that the distribution costs are essentially zero now. A few servers can hold thousands and thousands of ebooks. There is no longer a book shop taking 30%, there is no longer a shipping company taking 5% and no longer printing costs at probably 20%. SO that means that the entire $9.99 goes to 3 people: 1) Author/Editors 2) Publishers 3) Ebook distributor like Amazon.
So basicaly we don't want to pay large sums for these 'virtual digital' products. You can't share an ebook like you could lend a friend a book, they need to also have an expensive reading device. So there are disadvantages to ebooks, and they are cheaper for the publishers to distribute. The logic is compelling in my opinon.
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Agree. If you for example have 10 friends you can give your paper book to all of them and 10 people will read the same book (your friends can give you their books too) but if you purchased DRMed book you can't give it to anybody. No problem like this if you buy DRM free ebooks from websites like Fictionwise.com