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Originally Posted by murraypaul
That link shows 62% production and distribution (including retailer profit). With eBooks there is no reason they can't cut retail out completely and take all that, or at least more than currently.
Retailer profit is part of distribution cost, you are paying them to display your wares.
Plus of course there is no need to handle returns.
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You can take that one step farther and say "cut the
publisher out completely and take it all."
The problem is simple: you can self publish, but how do you reach that market that might be interested in reading your books sell to them?
While you can argue that they don't do it well,
selling books is what publishers and retailers
do.
If you want to make your
living writing (or even a significant fraction of it), you still need a publisher and retailers in the loop, and are likely to for the foreseeable future.
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Dennis