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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What sites that sell ebooks are setup to generate your ebook on the fly?
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Fictionwise (I think), Manybooks, Munsey's. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
Remember that many commercial sites (Like Connect) are enamored of DRM and, so, don't support multiple formats.
Of course, if we would settle on a standard, open format for eBooks, this point becomes moot.
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We are not talking about the cost of the site to the hosting company. We are talking about the cost of the website to the shop selling the ebooks.
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Then we are, again, talking about a 1 time fee that is spread over all the books sold - and represents an insignificant part of the selling price.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There are also costs such as editing, paying the agent, proofreading, meetings, etc. all go into getting the book to the final stage where it can be print and made into an ebook.
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This was already done in creating the pBook and should not be a cost of an eBook.
From my point of view, creating the pBook generates 99% of what is needed to do the eBook. The only thing left to do is click-Save As-Upload to someplace like Fictionwise.
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I would love to see how much of the price of a dead tree edition is going to the materials used to print the book. Now if we take that away, what's left should be the retail price for the ebook before any discounts.
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We got a glimpse of this when a publisher-person posted some information to Slashdot earlier this year. The numbers said that upwards of 75% of the selling price represented the physical-ness of the book.
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But what I don't get is how some book stores can sell a book at a lower cost then the ebook.
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Business wheeling-and-dealing.
If Amazon can promise "we'll buy 100,000 and you get no damaged books back from us" they can probably work out a good deal with the publisher.