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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But is it that simple? Remember, the online ebook sellers have to pay for the machine their website is hosted on as well as the bandwidth used by the store. Then there is paying the employees as well. Not to mention that there are employees who have to get the ebook ready once it's gone through the editing and whatnot. The ebook has to be converted into about 5-7 different formats roughly. All that costs money too. Do you think once the book is in electronic form to go to pre-press, it doesn't have any more expenses associated with it?
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Okay, consider these aspects of cost- the website used to sell e-books costs far less to maintain than a physical storefront. There are no associated warehousing and transport costs to market the e-book. And conversion to different formats is really a one-time cost for all of the books the publisher produces- the publisher buys the software product(s) to do the job, and his costs for conversion are complete. The book is ALREADY in electronic format before conversion to e-book format.
So, like many others, I ask- where are the reductions in price that should exist given the reductions in costs?