why does the digital book cost as much as the physical one?

Question

Like for real, it makes NO sense at all

In: Economics

Answer 1

When this is the case, (because frequently it’s not) the price is not about the cost of the paper, and production of the physical book, but the time and work put into said book by the author(s) and their team.
Sometimes their are higher marketing costs.
Sometimes the book covers a story or topic that isn’t widely discussed or availible.
Sometimes the book is just popular, and they’d like to recoup as much of their costs while they can.