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Originally Posted by NatCh
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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.  |
I think this was more about the cost for paper and other print material. The content is worth something, but basically ebooks cut out all the "hardware" cost on the publishers/authors side.
We can now go on and say, they will have to include costs for hosting and such in the price tag. But I'm sure this has to be a small fee for the single ebook, that it couldn't lead to prices like for the paper version.
Especially for those books that are only rented (DRM-books) for a unknown amount of time.