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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
IMHO prices should be lower on ebooks because there's so much less work involved on the publisher's end. But the authors should receive a substantially higher percentage of each sale -- high enough to match what they would earn off of paper sales. After all, their work has not diminished. Fair is fair.
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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
I'm in complete agreement. I've seen a couple of conversations regarding publishing prices with arguments that it is not that much cheaper to publish an ebook.... I don't get it! I am publishing industry impaired about this topic
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Originally Posted by kennyc
I just simply don't believe it. The printing, warehousing, shipping, and RETURNS!
The costs involved are different because the book must be distributed, tracked and stored on/by computer. I'm sure the are already tracking their physical product by computer do that is no different. The above are the only cost differentials I see and I can't believe those are insignificant.
I think it is much more to do with FUD than anything so they(the publishers) refuse to change.
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Yeah, I don't believe it either.
Like Daffy, I also missed this "48 ebooks for 100 pbooks" figure. That is way more than I would have imagined. Basically one out of every three books sold is an ebook? That's staggering if true.
Plus, if I were an author, I'd try and retain the rights to my ebook sales. Then I'd submit the book to Amazon myself and keep 35%+ of the sales, or I could go through Smashwords and keep nearly 50%. [Edit: I'd submit the ebook to other ebook outlets as well.]