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RacerX2oo3 · 07-23-03, 01:56 PM

This is a trend that is very disturbing to me. Any book publisher who is not willing to discount e-books is just just plain ripping off the buyer.

It cost's the publisher practically nothing to put out a book in e-book format. This means that every e-book sold is pure profit to a publisher. And since the author is only getting a set price per unit sold the publisher is pocketing a huge profit for doing basically nothing.

The price of an e-book should cover the authors per unit payment a fixed percentage profit say 10% for the publisher, and whatever markup the retailer adds.

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RacerX2oo3 Aximsite Prospect Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 15 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Ripoff Artists This is a trend that is very disturbing to me. Any book publisher who is not willing to discount e-books is just just plain ripping off the buyer. It cost's the publisher practically nothing to put out a book in e-book format. This means that every e-book sold is pure profit to a publisher. And since the author is only getting a set price per unit sold the publisher is pocketing a huge profit for doing basically nothing. The price of an e-book should cover the authors per unit payment a fixed percentage profit say 10% for the publisher, and whatever markup the retailer adds.