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Originally Posted by HarryT
With mainstream publishers, it's the hardback print run that's priced to repay the production costs. The subsequent paperback release is basically pure profit. That's why the hardback is so much more expensive - it doesn't actually cost that much more to print than the paperback does.
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The problem is that this writer assumes
that us, readers have to cough up instead of lowering his or, more importantly the publisher's chunk of it.
No paper cost means much lower publisher cost equals lower book price, period.
This is how it
must work otherwise they will slowly kill their own market, just super-greedy clueless parasites of the big studios did it with music and doing it with movies.