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Originally Posted by silvania
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Originally Posted by rlauzon
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Originally Posted by silvania
DRM fees consume 10 to 15% on an ebook. That's comparable to the printing costs of a pbook. A mass market paperback, that may list for $5 to $7, costs about 50 cents to print. The same ebook will cost about 50 to 75 cents to DRM.
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That's a problem with the retailers. They should be telling the publishers to eat the cost if they demand it. |
Retailers can say that all day long, but then the publishers simply say, "so don't sell my books as ebooks." The publishers dictate the terms and it is quite difficult to get them to budge even a little. So the choice for a retailer is, either sell all small publisher books that don't require encryption, or pay for the DRM. |
Even if the pubs "payed" for the DRM themselves, the Retailers would just find that the book cost
them 12 to 17% more (to cover the pubs' time in actually applying the DRM, you see, as well as the cost of the DRM itself), and the end result would be that end prices would rise about 2% -- in other words, there ain't no DRM fairy (just like there ain't no tax fairy) and the costs get passed to the consumer, regardless of their source.
