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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Since eBooks effectively cut out the middle-men (i.e. publishers and retailers), they can be priced significantly lower than pBooks - with the authors and retailers making the same.
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Now
that we agree on.
And I hope that your estimation of how much cost that cuts is closer to the reality than my own.
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Originally Posted by rlauzon
I don't believe that authors believe that they will make more off an eBook sale than a pBook sale.
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Nor do I, nor, I imagine do most of the authors themselves.
Although, it
may be that they end up making more money on e-books from higher sales rather than a higher per unit profit.
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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Since the cost to produce a copy of an eBook are effectively $0, we are just paying for the author's and retailer's profits.
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Well, their time and effort are worth
something, or we wouldn't be buying the books in the first place.
