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Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by TheCoelacanth on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:07AM (#32425816)
An ebook is only marginally cheaper to distribute than a printed book. If you're doing a reasonable sized print run, it's only going to cost you a dollar or two to print a book.

Most of the cost is in labor to write and edit the book, which still needs to happen for ebooks.

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Re:Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format by Turing_Machine on Thursday August 11, 2022 @02:54PM (#32430152)
Printing is only one of many costs, though. Shipping, returns, expen$ive retail space for physical inventory, salary and benefits for retail clerks, utilities, insurance, shoplifting losses...
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