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Quite frankly, it's none of their business how Amazon chooses to set retail prices on ebooks after Amazon has purchased them. As far as I'm concerned, it's up to the retailer to set prices, not the company providing the product; and loss leaders are nothing new to the business world. If the publishers didn't like what Amazon was doing, then they should've pulled their books and sold them elsewhere.
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But they are producing books. They are the ones that wanted to sell ebooks under the same model as pbooks. And they thought the ebook stores would treat them the same according to price. If they still do, decide one way or other for p and e books.
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Because to many here on MR, publishers can do no right and Amazon can do no wrong.
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In the case of pbooks that a bookstore stocks, the bookstore buys the pbook before the sale and if it can't sell the pbook, returns the pbook for a refund. In the case of an ebook, there is no return to the publisher and thus no refund because the ebook was not bought by the retailer. |
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Nobody really thinks Amazon is still paying for all physical books up front (before the sale), do they? Perhaps maybe with publishers they currently have no contract with (ahem), but other than that ... I don't believe for a second that they're "buying" BPH pbooks in advance. The publishers are using Amazon's warehouses for mass pbook storage and then Amazon is evening up with them (based on sales) at a later date. Just like they do with ebooks (the "later date" part, not the "storing in warehouses" part).
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