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Originally Posted by Lemurion
DRM costs should be included in the price because a business that doesn't cover the all the costs of production in the price of its products will go out of business. Buyers are then free to decide whether to buy the product or not depending on how well the price matches their idea of its value.
Just because DRM'd books are worth less to many buyers, myself included, does not mean it doesn't get factored in when setting the price.
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Can I ask you where you got the idea/numbers that indicate that it's publishers, that foot the bill for DRM. With Amazon proprietary DRM, Sony/Adobe etc. I would imagine the DRM is footed by a retailer, same as storage/IT/Bandwidth cost. So the cost to publisher for ebook production (not book production, yeah you have to edit
it) is zero.
What I also don't get, is that authors on average (from multiple posts) gets 2-3 bucks per book, are you saying that editing the book is more expensive or time consuming? Cause the publisher tries to charge $7-8 per book for it in agent model.