once again, o'reilly has a clue, and guts too
- From: Bowerbird@[redacted]
- Subject: once again, o'reilly has a clue, and guts too
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:41:07 EST
once again, o'reilly has a clue, and guts too:
> http://journals.aol.com/bowerbird/bowerbirdseyeview
thank heaven for the pioneers...
-bowerbird
p.s. a point relevant to a longstanding point of contention here:
> print publishing is very much a "tipping point" business.
> While customers naively assume that printing is
> a large part of the retail cost of a book,
> for a successful, high volume computer book,
> it typically represents less than 10% of the list price.
> Distribution costs (including retailer discount,
> warehousing, and physical distribution), by contrast,
> represent more than 60% of the list price!
yes, the entire situation gets considerably more thorny, of course,
which to its credit this piece does a rather good job of explicating.
still, i could help but notice that word "naively". telling, isn't it?