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Originally Posted by DaleDe
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.
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That relates to ebooks costing less or more how? Just because a greedy wife wants to make more by sticking bits of a notes into a great novel it makes the price go up on all Heinlein books or something? In fact for me it's not even a value add, but dillution, but my opinion on this practice is irrelevant.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
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.
Dale
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Really? That includes what ink and paper? In many posts here and in the media, the printing costs include labor, shipping, storage and returns. I think it comes way higher then a buck.
Again the point is not free editions, but the costs. There are still expenses, but don't make me laugh about converting books to various formats for sale, what you don't know how to convert any book from say xml or html in 2 seconds or less?
Computers, labor, tools yeah they will add up if you doing one book. But as project Guttenberg and Darknet shows it's not that much.
One dedicated person can scan and proofread one book in less then a week (full time). That's what for college student who can read ~ $500-$600, so it's $1 cost if you sell only 500 books, you probably want to do it for the books that sells 1K, so it's 50c cost per.
And that's with proofreading, do Google type scanning and it takes what 2 hours?
But I don't think I will ever convince you. Different reality outside of what publishers PR feeds you doesn't seem to ever make a difference for certain types of posters.