&gt;And, you omit other costs incurred by traditional print book publishing, including shipping, warehousing books and fulfilling orders.<p>In the figures that I quoted, I believe that those are rolled into the wholesalers cut.<p>Ebooks can certainly be priced so prices are lower to consumers than hardcovers (as well as PoD) while the author&#x2F;publisher makes at least as much. My point with the figures--which seem to be surprisingly difficult to nail down authoritative sources for--was that printing&#x2F;distribution isn&#x27;t the lion&#x27;s share of what someone is paying for when they buy a hardcover book.