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slm · 12-09-2010, 05:02 PM

The numbers I've seen suggest that Amazon was not usually taking a loss--it is said to pay 40-50% percent of the cover price on a non-agency book, which means a $9.99 book isn't a "loss" unless the cover price is over $20 or so. On the hottest titles it takes a small loss (as it often does on the hardcover version of the same book).

12-09-2010, 05:02 PM	#9
slm Fool Posts: 476 Karma: 4113712 Join Date: Feb 2003 Device: Kindle: Voyage,PW1,KOA, Kobo: Clara Colour, Nook GLP, Pocketbook verse	The numbers I've seen suggest that Amazon was not usually taking a loss--it is said to pay 40-50% percent of the cover price on a non-agency book, which means a $9.99 book isn't a "loss" unless the cover price is over $20 or so. On the hottest titles it takes a small loss (as it often does on the hardcover version of the same book).