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Originally Posted by silvania
You lost me with this argument. If you don't "create" your own ebook store, and you want to sell ebooks, then you have to pay someone else to run the ebookstore for you. They will charge you not only their own overhead costs, but also will want to make a profit, so that will increase, not decrease, your overhead of running a store.
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But now those costs are spread out over many authors, costing a single author much less than if he set up his own site.
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Originally Posted by silvania
Without DRM ebooks could be moderately less expensive than print books. But not 1/4 of the price as you say. You're way off with that. Even if expense ratios allowed that, the publishers wouldn't price them that way because they would be afraid of cannabalizing print book sales.
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Well, eBooks are coming whether they want them or not. So publishers need to evolve or, like all good dinosaurs, they will become extinct.
People are not going to pay hardcover prices for an eBook. Period.
People aren't even going to pay mass market paperback price for an eBook. We
know that the costs simply aren't there to justify the price.