Apple, publishers 'sued for price fixing'

Re:Apple, publishers 'sued for price fixing' by capnrefsmmat on Saturday August 13, 2011 @11:58AM (#2881189)

Printing cost of a paper book is only $3-4, so even eliminating the cost of printing, ebooks would still be expensive. I suspect most of the cost of books goes to marketing and promotion, not printing and binding.

http://www.millcitypress.net/book-printing-costs.aspx

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Re:Apple, publishers 'sued for price fixing' by scott_s on Saturday August 13, 2011 @09:36PM (#2882503)

That's the difficulty with books. People fee like they've paid for the physical object in their hands, when really, they've paid for all of the work that went into making that object possible.

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Re:Apple, publishers 'sued for price fixing' by StavrosK on Saturday August 13, 2011 @12:19PM (#2881250)

Shipping, handling, etc isn't free, though.

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Re:Apple, publishers 'sued for price fixing' by acgourley on Saturday August 13, 2011 @12:12PM (#2881229)

also make sure to factor in shipping, which amazon often must bake into the price slightly.

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