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Originally Posted by FixB
By the way, I read on others posts that amazon is loosing money on some of the ebooks they sell way under the publisher price. This would not be allowed in France where there is a maximum of 5% debate on a publisher price for a given distributor. This law is specifically to stop big librairies (online or otherwise) to kill their 'small' competitors... too easily...
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Well, they pay the publisher 35% of their suggested retail price, if i read correctly. That is very little. And they claim the right to sell it to any price they like. So i do not think, that they are putting money in.
Mobipocket gives the publishers 50% of the suggessted retail price. The retailers get a 30 to 40% , that leaves mobipocket with about 10% for each sale.
Compare that to Amazon, and you see what kind of profit they will draw from the ebooks and what freedom it leaves them to sell way cheaper than any other mobipocket retailer.