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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
...which means that the act of producing e-books will be an additional step for publishers, and incur more cost to them (mainly personnel activity involved in the conversion and maintenance of the websites).
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<click><click><click> There, I just produced an eBook. No cost.
Upload to Fictionwise. Let them sell the eBook for me. Again, no cost.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
E-books cost less to produce than paperbacks. However, publishers cannot yet depend on making money on the volume of e-books, so they cannot set their profit margins the way they set them on paperbacks... yet.
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I fail to see the logic. There is almost no cost to produce an eBook. Even if the sale of eBooks is 1/1000 of that of the paper book, it's almost all profit.