Thread: Is piracy likely to harm ebook sales?
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Old 04-01-2010, 09:03 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Perhaps because people who make ludicrous assertions such as "ebooks cost virtually nothing to produce" clearly know absolutely nothing about book publishing. The majority of the cost of publishing a book comes from such things as copy editing. This has to be done for an eBook just as much as for a paper book. If you honestly believe that copy editors work for free, I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken.
All of that would have been done before the original hardback or paperback version was released, it would not need to be done again for an ebook edition.
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