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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
Or what you are really saying is the publishers don't want to sell books at the price they charge in the US or UK, but at double (or triple) the price that we usually pay here instead, so they won't sell at all...
Given some books are being sold from various publishers, doesn't make a lot of sense....
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No, I really wasn't saying that. But the percentage of the sale price that Amazon takes is very high, and the publishers that I'm aware of making a comment on this would rather sell the things themselves and (they feel) give a better deal to both themselves and the writers.
I wasn't advocating a particular position or putting forward my imagined opinion; I was just contributing what had been said to me as an example of the thinking of some people involved in the interaction, and as evidence that, in some cases ar least, it's not just a case of the publishers being selfish and bastardly.