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Originally Posted by dmikov
I like how pandits of high ebook prices manipulate true facts to cover other true facts. Zigfrid and Roy can take a lesson.
Oh, don't you worry about saving on paper, shipping costs and such it's not major cost.
A. Even if it's true for first print books, what about second etc prints. When I will have ability to buy Tolkien electronically, what am I paying for? Certainly not for editorial work or marketing. It has been done decades ago and has been recovered aplenty. Or R. Heilein - You still paying advances to dead author?- really? It's print cost - plain and simple, will I see e-book prices reflecting this? I don't think so.
Funny the other day I looked at who Mark Twaine called "pirates" - it was publishers. He felt, they are the ones ripping authors.
B. There are cost savings small or large - I want to see them in the price tag.
Sad part, that publishers lies are lapped greedily by too many otherwise intelligent people.
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Heinlein's wife still needs the money. She put together a great copy of Strangers in a strange land that goes beyond the '60s printing using her husbands notes. The print costs are less than a buck. But none of that stuff you talk about has electronic copies already so these need to be created and converted to the various formats for sale. There still are expenses in buy tools, labor, proof reading, computers, etc. Yes there is still a profit for the author and publisher. Why else would they do it.
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