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Originally Posted by HarryT
The things that I list have to form a component of the price of the eBook, just as they do for a paper book. If the eBook sells fewer copies than a paper book, their unit cost is inevitably going to be higher than for a paper book, therefore the eBook could well end up costing more than the paper book. Simply economics.
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Well that
might true if the e-Book was never published as a paper edition but this discussion is, I assume, about the comparative costs of the same editions of the same book from the same publisher.
Most of the costs of producing an e-Book are shared with the cost of producing the printed edition. The e-Book doesn't of course have to bear the costs of printing, storage, transport or distribution.
The costs to the publisher should normally be a lot less, and there is no reason why they should not charge less fore-books. Of course publishers may take the view that e-Books are an added-value service and something they can charge more for (pdfs of computer manulas or Lonely Planet guidebooks are other examples), and if they think they can make more money that way, they will.