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Originally Posted by wallcraft
Since HarperCollins is an agency publisher, they set retail prices and pay ebook stores a flat 30% so there is little advantage to having their own store.
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Really? I'd have thought that being an agency pricing publisher made it even more of an incentive to have your own ebook store. Other people can't undercut the prices in your ebook store , and your get 100% of the revenue. OK, there are some charges for maintaining the store, but if you're into ebooks seriously (which all publishers must be or they won't be publishers for very many more years) this should certainly come to a lot less than 30% of sales.
But the closing of the Harper Collins ebook store is yet another reminder that buying DRMed ebooks is only renting them unless you are willing (& able) to strip the DRM.