PrepTest 136, Section 1, Question 2
The Internet makes possible the instantaneous transmission and(417 more words not shown)
The author uses the phrase(14 more words not shown)
- Athe fees collected(6 more words not shown)
- Bthe price paid(6 more words not shown)
- Cthe royalties paid(5 more words not shown)
- Dthe costs specific(8 more words not shown)
- Ethe total sales(14 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Which expenses are disappearing? Look back to the inventory system: warehousing copies, shipping them to wholesalers and stores, displaying them, and returning unsold stock. Those are costs of getting traditionally printed books into buyers' hands.
What we’re looking for
We're looking for that group of expenses, not every cost involved in creating a book. Print on demand still produces a physical object.
Working the answers
- A
Literary agents remain part of the new model; they are the people demanding better terms for authors. The phrase doesn't refer to eliminating their fees.
- B
The new machines still print and bind books. Those activities happen when a buyer orders a copy, so their cost hasn't simply vanished. This also narrows the reference to one production activity when the surrounding discussion lists an entire distribution and retail system.
- C
Author royalties aren't being eliminated. The argument is that eliminating other expenses gives agents a reason to demand a larger share for authors.
- DCorrect
These are the costs associated with the traditional retail trade in printed books: keeping finished copies in stock and moving, displaying, and returning them. That matches the earlier list and explains why the author expects the new model to cost less.
- E
This describes an amount calculated from sales and returns. The phrase refers to categories of expense that the new model avoids, not to that calculation of sales revenue.
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