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Originally Posted by saoir
What many are missing here is the psychology of profit in the modern multinational.
I agree with all of the contributions above exposing that production of ebooks is far far less costly than that of paper books. Adding to that the savings in distribution and retailer margin, the only rational and logical conclusion that can be reached is that Publishers could easily sell ebooks at a significantly lower price than paper books and make the SAME profit.
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Maybe, but probably at the moment the lower costs for the production of the ebook compared to a paper version also has to be earned back by a lot less sales (right now and in short to mid-term). So it might not be so easy yet to make statements on the profit yet.
Yes, once you have an ebook you can sell it for eternity without any new production costs. But the ebook market is still in development and we are still paying for early-adaptor status.