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Originally Posted by uebyn
Like your POV. 
I read somewhere, though, that the cost of programming that goes behind the ebook is considerably high. Maybe that's why it translates into higher costs - not sure about the details, but in any case I suspect the cost of transport and printing for a single book is negligible anyway. Like they say in another thread, the best thing will be to be able to have both versions at once, at a reasonable price. |
Which is total BS. Layout for printing is more difficult, and most layout programs either directly generate ebooks or outputs in a way to generate ebooks. Since most ebook formats reflow, not as much work is needed to be done. Also, technically, you don't need to do any programming to make ebooks, if you don't want to. There are plenty of WYSIWYG tools for ebooks. Even if you do want to, HTML is the language used as the language for ebook layout, one of the simplest computer languages and the basis for webpages.
Really it boils down to they charge more because they can. If it was expensive or difficult to do it, why would there be so many 99 cent, two or three dollar ebooks?