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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Isn't it the same for a paperbook? Once you bought the press, did the layout, got the machine up and running then you only have the almost negligible cost of paper and print. Electricity you need to delivery ebooks, too. The point is all costs included in that "first book" (including all overheads, editing, layout, salaries and wages, taxes, etc) have to be recovered. And they will be spread out over the number of copies made, both e and p. And corporations exist to make a profit (when did that become a dirty word) just as people got to work to make a profit (salary or wage). Prices will come down when companies can be sure that they will sell more units that way and increase overall income. Right now we would get a lot of companies going belly up and a lot of unemployment if the prices for ebooks were as low as some hope them to be.
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No, my point is you can debate the physical costs of a product all you like, and come up with any number of calculations for it, (i.e. the 2nd book is free) but does that really give you what the book, physical or otherwise, should really cost? The cost of the "first book" isn't a set formula, nor should it be.
Saying a book should cost x or y because this is what paper costs is just as deceptive as saying this is what digital storage/file transfer costs, so that's how we should set book prices.
Isn't the market supposed to set prices?