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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. 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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Hear, hear.
Also sites like BoB and FW invest huge amounts of money in their web sites (though FW hardly looks like it). The storage and ecommerce capabilities constantly need upgraded. A print pub invests next to nothing in web technology.