Reply to post: Re: Auto Rip

Well, what d'you know: Raising e-book prices doesn't raise sales

tfewster

Re: Auto Rip

> ."...text is much more costly and difficult to digitise than film or music."

But it's still a tiny part of the cost of publishing a book - If the original isn't available in a word processor document and you don't trust OCR to reliably read older texts, a copy-typist + a proofreader could probably convert a novel a day easily. Let's say $500-$1000 per book.

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