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This will be the last time I weigh in on this discussion. I'm going to give a couple of real-world examples from the company I work for.
Keep in mind, we are a very small publishing house serving a very select niche market.
The last book we printed was a 324 page, trade paperback book that we put a list price of $9.99 on. We printed only 5,000 copies of this book; a ridiculously small number. Our final cost per printed book is $0.89.
The last time we did a run of a similarly sized book of 20,000 copies, our cost was $0.48 per book.
If we were a large publishing house, printing books in the 100,000 copy range, on a daily basis, buying paper directly from the manufacturer, months in advance, our costs would be far lower per copy.
I get the impression some may think that a $10 book has $3 worth of paper in it. I hope this is helpful.
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