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Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing f...
Uh, no. You're paying for middlemen (printing, marketing, big publishing, etc) . Authors typically take 10 to 15%, either of royalties or net profit.
Retra
on March 9, 2016
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I've never paid for a printed ebook.
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Well no shit. You were arguing that the significant portion of the cost of physical books is the writing. It's not.
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No, I was arguing that one should not expect ebooks should not be massively cheaper than paper books just because they aren't printed. There's still a lot to pay for.
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