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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Instead it allows the author to earn out their advance faster and publishers recoup their up front costs and give them a greater ability to buy other books from their authors.
Your argument still comes back to saying people who buy ebooks are special and don't need to pay their share of the costs.
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And your argument still comes back to saying publishers are horribly inefficient and have tons of unnecessary overhead associated with DTBs, and want to shovel it off on ebooks rather than fix their incredibly broken industry.
You're also acting as though the publishers receive no monies for ebooks. Those alone, coupled with the greatly reduced overhead for producing an ebook version of a DTB, nicely offset the costs you keep harping on.
But since publishers are deathly afraid of cost-efficient (to them) ebooks killing off the incredibly cost-inefficient (to them) DTB market for some reason I can't possibly fathom, they refuse to pursue ebooks in an attempt to prop up the DTB market.
And, in the process, attempt to shovel as much of the cost of the DTB market onto the price of an ebook, in the hopes of both recovering money that they could better recover through profit, and killing off the ebook market due to high prices.