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Originally Posted by Mememememe
Even associated costs (warehousing, distribution, etc.) combined with printing & binding only come to about 1/5 or, at most, 1/4 of the list price. ...
That said, the Kobo price shouldn't be higher than the physical book price, since Kobo has more respectable terms.
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We agree on your last statement
When I see eBooks cheaper then (1-1/5)x"Price of the paper book" (that is, less then 80%), I will believe the old argument that Amazon is pushing the prices low in order to sell Kindle devices. But with all the other cheap ereaders now available, that hypothesis (about the razor and blades business model with Kindle) cannot be upgraded to a theory.
I am more inclined to believe that the publishers do not want the ebook business to succeed, at least not yet.