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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Care to offer any evidence of that at all?
All those paperbacks taking up 80%+ of the fiction section at a book store aren't making money? All those books published only in paperback aren't making money?
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They are making money bu a best selling hardcover makes much more money.
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(Or that most hardbacks are actually sold at list price? I was in a book store
yesterday, and more than half the hardbacks on display were discounted. So maybe people aren't actually willing to pay the full price?)
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It is the retailer that discounts. The publisher get the same amount of money regardless of the retailer's price.