Per book obviously. But, ebooks are often (but not always) discounted more than a dollar off the price of the physical book, while their total costs often end u

Per book obviously. But, ebooks are often (but not always) discounted more than a dollar off the price of the physical book, while their total costs often end up being similar. Even for ebooks priced exactly at their physical counterpart prices (and ignoring that the total costs may actually be approximately identical), people aren't complaining that ebooks should be 80 cents cheaper, they are complaining that they should be significantly cheaper, which the economics of producing an ebook does not allow.