Charlie Stross discusses it in detail here, but the short version is that a very small fraction of the price of a book is for the printing, storage, transport of dead trees etc. Most of it goes on things like editing and proofing of the manuscript.
Charlie Stross discusses it in detail here, but the short version is that a very small fraction of the price of a book is for the printing, storage, transport of dead trees etc. Most of it goes on things like editing and proofing of the manuscript.