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Ok HarryT, enlighten me, how much do Copy editors work for?
Figure a reasonable 500 page novel.
What does it cost, 1,000$, 2,000$?
Out of that how many ebooks can they sell? An Infinite number.
So over say a 20 year period just how many copy's of an ebook get sold for a reasonably popular author? 100,000? Half a million? Heck lets be really really conservative, and plan for 20,000 over a 20 year period. How far does that 2,000$ cost go? How can you possibly justify something that costs 1$ a book when they are trying to sell them for 15$ a book? Seriously!
No I don't know the publishing world, what I do know is that once the work is done they can sell that book until the copyright runs out. Life plus 70 correct? So you have to be looking at a 100 year average for copyright. Thats selling the same book that costs you X dollars to produce once, for 100 years with no new added costs. You don't even need overhead, because you can get Amazon to sell it for you if you have the rights to it.
Its about greed, pure plain and simple.
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