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Originally Posted by kennyc
No, no. Separate them The cost of the Ebook and the cost of the pbook. Not lumped together.
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The principal cost is simply the cost of generating and promoting the work itself - paying the author's advance, editing the text as necessary, commissioning cover art, etc. Actual manufacturing costs represent only around 15% of the price of a physical book, which is why it's reasonable to expect ebooks to retail at a discount of 20-30%.
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Originally Posted by Daithi
The publishers are making a killing on ebooks. The margin on ebooks is far higher than it is on hardcovers. An ebook doesn't have printing, warehousing, inventory, shipping, and returns costs. So the publisher gets paid $11.70 regardless of the type of book sold, but the cost of producing an ebook is much lower than a hardcover.
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See above, and frankly this myth has been debunked several times on this forum and elsewhere. eBooks
do represent a saving on costs and overheads, but not nearly to the degree that some people seem to imagine, and much of the saving comes at the distribution and retail end, which is covered by the 55% the publisher never sees.