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If you think that publishers spend almost nothing on producing ebooks, then you clearly understand nothing about the publishing industry.



Notwithstanding what I understand about the publishing industry, I'm talking about the marginal cost of distributing a .mobi or whatever versus manufacturing a printed book, not the entire cost of publishing an eBook.


That's only a dollar or two of difference per unit in costs to the publisher. The majority of their costs are exactly the same for ebooks and printed books.


Sure, I never said they weren't.




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