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Cost of a published book:
Publisher's Cost:
Preperation Costs + Paper + Printing Company + Inventory Cost + Authors Fees + Distribution Cost +Profit
Retailers Cost:
Shelf (Rent) Cost + Inventory Cost + Sales People's Wages + Profit

Now lets look at E-Book's cost:
Publisher's Cost:
Preperation Costs + Authors Fees + Profit
Retailer's Cost:
Server Fees + Profit


My point:
When comfortable and cheap e-book readers become available, E-Books will be so much cheaper than paper books that lack of demand for paper books will be prohibitive for publishers to publish paper books. Lesser and lesser paper books will be published each year. Limited number of paper book fans (willing to pay premium) will only be able to keep a small portion of the paper book industry alive.

When you deal with digital property, given that piracy issues are fixed, cost of distribution and stocking is equal to nothing.

I estimate by 2011 it will be very difficult to find a paper-published educational book.(Scool,Campuss and training books)

By 2016 leisure publications will have difficutly finding shell space in mainstream retail outlets.

I believe it is even realistic to expect most publishers go out of business when most authors don't need printing,stocking and distribution services while they can directly go to retailers such as Xlibris and Amazon.
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You learn from paper not e-books  American Pride | 08/27/04
Nothing like curling up next to the fireplace with a nice laptop?!?!  Xunil_Sierutuf | 08/27/04
You need more than 72-90 dpi for comfortable reading  Atlant | 08/27/04
Agreed, but some funny thoughts  bthomasmo@... | 08/27/04
LOL... Oh, let me just rip this advertisment out.. ZZZZZZZZZzzt!  Xunil_Sierutuf | 08/27/04
Depends on the laptop  Yagotta B. Kidding | 08/27/04
Have e-books turned a page?  Loverock Davidson | 08/27/04
In praise of Jim Baen  sales@... | 08/27/04
Mod parent up!  Yagotta B. Kidding | 08/27/04
Sounds good  Melmac_z | 08/27/04
It's all about mobility..  d_jedi | 08/27/04
Option offered  Yagotta B. Kidding | 08/27/04
Until  James Dean_z | 08/27/04
Or  bthomasmo@... | 08/27/04
Here's my view of E-books  voska | 08/27/04
Not a replacement for paperbacks, but  sales@... | 08/27/04
I find loading dozens of tech books  voska | 08/27/04
Comparing pages to bytes  gas_z | 08/27/04
You forgot about compression!  Atlant | 08/27/04
Economy  eaydinceren@... | 08/27/04
Even better, Don't need the publisher  voska | 08/27/04
I like the idea.  mathandmetal | 08/27/04
Linux Games  voska | 08/27/04
The key, for me, will be re-acquiring my existing library  Atlant | 08/27/04
Ebooks  Melmac_z | 08/27/04
As long as I BUY them not rent them  CobraA1 | 08/27/04
what we want is privacy  V Sanders | 08/29/04
Librie  samirss | 01/06/06

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