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Originally Posted by rhadin
As I do editing and typesetting for both p and e, I do not see any difference in the cost; my fees run the same. Perhaps the difference is that there is no "design" for ebooks?
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I suspect there's no "typesetting" for ebooks; they don't arrange how much fits on a page for .mobi or .epub, and there's no kerning/leading/orphan control.
I want to know what they're basing the rest of that number on--how many books are assumed in the print run, that it's $.50 each for the copyediting & layout of a book?
Print & ship costs can be per book: print 1000 books, and it's $3250 for print & shipping; print 1500, and it's $4875. Obviously, there'll be a lower limit, but they can claim any standard print run costs that much.
But copyediting isn't a per-unit cost, and it's not a percent-of-sale cost like the author's cut. And neither is marketing. I'd like to know what they're basing those numbers on. Ebooks don't cost $.50 each to edit; they have an up-front editing cost that's hoping to be spread out over expected sales--which numbers they aren't telling us.