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Originally Posted by HarryT
That is a ridiculous thing to say. Publishers do an enormous amount of work before a book gets to the stage of being published, from the editor who works with the author, to the proof readers, right through to advertising, publicity, etc. All that applies just as much to eBooks as to paper books.
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You are confusing value to the author with value to the reader.
Publishers today bring value to me, a reader, by creating an infrastructure that makes pBooks cost effective.
All of the things you list above bring value to the author. Those are not things that I, as a reader, am willing to pay for. They are not valuable to me. If the author thinks they are valuable, then the author can pay for those out of his pocket.
Those things are
not a reason to make eBooks cost more.