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Originally Posted by rlauzon
I do see the value that a publisher may bring an author, but as a reader, why do I care? For the author, that's a cost of doing business and it's not a reason for me to pay more for an eBook.
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"Cost of doing business" is traditionally passed on to the customer in one form or another, rather like a retail business's taxes, the customer really pays them. There ain't no tax fairy, and there ain't no 'cost of doing business' fairy.
If there is a benefit to the author, then it translates to a better product (at least better than it
would have been

). If product X is better for my purposes than product Y, but costs more, then I have to decide whether to pay more, or make do with less.
Of course, there
is a limit to how much cost can be passed on, but if the business person can't pass enough cost on to his customers that
he can still put food on his table ... well, then the business closes and nobody's really served by that.