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Originally Posted by ahi
In the vast majority of instances, the publisher receives 45% of the list price of the book (from the distributor/wholesaler), and it is out of that money that all other costs are paid:
- royalties
- printing (which are indeed minor)
- promotion
- all the preparatory work that went into it (well... not paid, but recovered)
The huge cuts that various middlemen get make up 55% of the cost of most physical books. eBooks, at their most expensive, should still be less than half the cost of the physical book... with everyone borderline productive (i.e.: not just involved in moving boxes and books around the country) still getting the same cut.
Or am I wrong?
- Ahi
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I look at it this way...
I won't buy the hardcover edition. It's too expensive. But if I was to buy the eBook at $9.99 then I am paying more then I would for the paperback edition. So by getting a new eBook before it gets to paperback does give the publisher/author more money.