Re:In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business
by JeanMarcS on Saturday February 02, 2019 @05:22AM
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Cost to print, but also cost to stock (I worked with a small publisher for years, and they had to rent a big storage facility for their stock), the cost to ship, etc.
These are marginal when selling ePub, and yet it’s still expensive in France.
Wanna know something even more stupid ?
Most of the time, you can’t buy them from out of France !
I don’t know if this is still true, but two years ago I tried to buy ePub online and couldn’t because I was not in France.
Fun fact ? I was living in the Caribbean on a French island (Guadeloupe), which is run on French laws and administration.
That's atrocious and something I really dislike. I personally believe that ebooks should be cheaper - by subtracting the cost it takes to print the paper books (and that should be the maximum price).