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Originally Posted by Indio777
Per the book details on Amazon, this book was published by Kent State University Press. The Jim Harrison bibliography was also published by a university press.
Books published by university presses are generally priced higher than other books, sometimes a lot higher. I guess it's maybe because not that many copies are printed in comparison to "commercial" publishers and they are trying to recover the cost of publishing a title?
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I understand that it's the product of a university press, and yes university press books are usually more expensive than those published by commercial publishers. However, it is not Amazon's responsibility to discount the book until it is priced competitively with books from commercial publishers. If the author is complaining that the book is too expensive when the list price is close to twice that of books on similar subjects from commercial publishers, it's not Amazon's fault. The publisher set the price, so they're ultimately responsible.
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Originally Posted by HoraceWimp
Well if you’d bothered to read the article I quoted from and gave you the link to you would have read for yourself (and understood how it was related to the paper edition) what pricing model Amazon were using:
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With the launch of the Kindle, Amazon promoted a low baseline price of $9.99 for most e-books. That meant that Amazon was selling virtually all newly published e-books at a loss. For example: A new book with a hardcover list price of $29.95 would be given an e-book price of $23.95 — 20 percent less to account for the publisher’s savings in printing, binding and distribution. The publisher would sell that e-book to Amazon for $12, and Amazon would retail it for $9.99, taking a $2 loss.
Source: http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/ever...ook_price_war/
No doubt that is no evidence whatsoever and will also be waved away as rubbish!  |
The book in question,
Born to Lose by James Hollock, has a print list price of $34.95, and a digital list price of $16.99; both set by the publisher. Amazon's price for the kindle edition is based on the publisher's digital list price, not their print price. The amount Amazon pays for the digital edition is also based on the digital list price, not the print price.
Even your Salon article has the publishers setting a digital list price, and charging Amazon based on that digital list price, not the print price.
The publisher may have derived their digital list from the print price, but what they charged Amazon was based on the digital list.