said by The Dv8or:said by Snakeoil:IMO, selling an e-book at 10 bucks a pop generates more profit then selling a physical book.
Physical books require fuel and man power to get them into the hands of the reader, which add costs to the book. An e-book is easy money.
You say "in my opinion", and then you follow it up with what are essentially made up facts. You have no idea if what you're saying is true or not. However, it fits your argument, regardless of its truth. And opinion has nothing to do with it.
Ok MR. Troll, I'll bit.
Do e-book require fuel to deliver to readers? I doubt it, unless you count the coal used to power the power plants that power the devices that run/connect to the internet. Then that amount of coal required is probably a small amount. Compared to the power required to power a printing press, book binder. Then to box it, then load it in the truck to deliver to the point of sale or the readers home.
e-book requires a lot less effort then a physical book. It's production costs are a lot less. The main cost is the license fee.
Also consider the physical space abook takes up. It requires a warehouse to be stored in for shipping, or a bookshelf for display. An ebook takes up next to nothing in space. Add to that, a physical book requires a human to move it, vs an ebook.
So physical books do have a higher cost then ebooks.
ebooks are easy money.
Go check out smashwords, or a print on demand service. Heck even Barnes and Noble or Amazon have self publish e-book software. For those that want to publish an e-book.
Heck, the one site I was on, mentioned one reason why ebooks were so high, was because the publishers still have a lot of physical real estate to pay for. Offices, warehouses, maybe printing presses, though I think they contract that out.