On 11 November 2010 22:23, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:12 +0000, Bruno Girin wrote: >> For a publisher, the traditional business model is based on acquiring >> the rights to reproduce a text, producing physical items out of this >> text, shifting those books to distributors and selling the physical >> objects. >> >> Most of the cost is in the distribution ... > > Incorrect. Most of the cost is in the non-physical stuff: editing, > typesetting, marketing, and other forms of production. >
I think that in fact the relative costs to the publisher of paper books versus e-books is pretty much irrelevant. The _price_ that a product is marketed at is only loosely related to the _cost_ of production and distribution. A supplier will always attempt to set the price of a product so as to maximise his total profit. In the case of e-books this is a particularly difficult calculation as he must make sure that in shifting buyers from paper to e there is not a reduction in profit. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
