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Originally Posted by geneven
What is the marginal cost of one more e-book? Let's say that you, the publisher, expected to sell 5,000 copies of a book, but instead, you sold 5,001 copies. How much did that extra book cost you to make available?
My guess is that the cost of supplying 5001 copies minus the cost of supplying 5000 copies is almost zero. Note that proofreading and marketing would not count in this figure, but if the author gets a fixed amount per copy, that would count.
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Correct. The marginal cost of one more ebook is almost zero. Only one copy of the electronic file needs to reside on the commerce server. The cost I can see will essentially be the bandwidth used by the download and an allocated share of overhead, plus author royalties if the book has already earned out the advance.
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Dennis