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Cindy Hamilton[_2_] Cindy Hamilton[_2_] is offline
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On Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:06:25 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 9:26:40 AM UTC-6, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:12:50 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> > > On 2021-02-21 9:24 a.m., Gary wrote:
> > > > Graham wrote:
> > > >> I bought 3 novels the other day as the waiting lists for the e-versions
> > > >> at the library were way too long.
> > > >> I tried to download one e-edition but despite help from the library, it
> > > >> wouldn't download. It was a fault with them and once they corrected it,
> > > >> I tried again by which time others had discovered the book and the
> > > >> waiting list was long. They clearly had experienced the same problem.
> > > >
> > > > This sounds so odd. Libraries have waiting lists for E-books? WTH?
> > > > One would think that you could quickly download an ebook with no waiting
> > > > times.
> > > >
> > > Libraries buy licenses to a certain number of "copies" so only a certain
> > > number can be on loan at any time.
> > >
> > > I am kinda surprised at the cost of e-books. There must be something I
> > > don't know about the cost of producing them. It costs quite a bit print
> > > and bind books. They are heavy, so there are significant shipping costs.
> > > Then there is the cost of returning unsold or damaged books. Those
> > > costs do not apply to e-books. The savings of buying an e-book is
> > > nowhere near what I expected to there to be.

> > 1. The costs to print books are really not that much compared to the
> > overhead of publishing houses, marketing, etc. For every bestseller they
> > produce, they publish a bunch of poor-to-mediocre sellers. And they
> > also have to spend a bunch evaluating and rejecting manuscripts.
> >
> > 2. As Taxed and Spent said, "because they can" (I paraphrase).
> >

> Printing costs actually are pretty high. If they weren't, the marketplace
> would offer self publishers prices lower than they do. The best price
> I've found to print my book is 125 copies for $1312, which is about
> $10.50 a copy.


Much of that cost is setup. Once you get into tens of thousands of
copies, the price per copy is appreciably lower.


Cindy Hamilton