CMAP #2: How Books Are Made - Charlie's Diary

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http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/cmap-2-how-books-are-made.html

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I have had a few conversations recently with people who have kvetched about having to pay the same price for an ebook as they do for the paperback, and I have wished that I was able to easily find this post to point them at. Short version: the cost of your paperback book is *not* a materials cost. Physical production, shipping and distribution account for around a quid of the price. The other six of seven quid is labour, and there's a lot more labour goes in that you might think, and most of it isn't the author's.