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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
From a completely different perspective, what worries me is that as vendors demand larger and larger cuts of the pie...it's going to come from the author's cut. Amazon isn't going to pay 70 percent if they have to give 30 percent to Apple (I think someone brought this up earlier.) And that means it gives the big publishers an excuse to keep the ebook royalty to the author lower or tiered.
Sigh. Wherever there is money, a feeding frenzy begins. I so hope that the "golden age" of ebooks lasts longer for the authors. Yes, I have selfish reasons for that, but the authors have been pushed down to 5 and 7 percent royalties for so long. It's been an amazing time and an amazing thing to have a market that offered even 35 percent...
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Yes, I see this as a ripple effect of Apple's course.
In the five years since I started buying iDevices, I've spent only about $25 total on content and apps through Apple. I buy my books and music from elsewhere, and most of my 100+ apps were free. I'll keep using my iPad as long as I can continue to buy content outside Apple. I don't want Apple's cut to eat into already thin margins in book sales.