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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
It's not profitable if it causes people to spend $2.99 rather than $12.99. It's not profitable if the *library* doesn't by the book in the first place. (And note that OD is going to have to set up a new system for this, and they will want some of the $2.99).
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Look, an author can make a profit on a PURCHASED $0.99 eBook at SmashWords. Last time I checked it was about half. That include all the overhead of the software development, website operation, and credit card fees.
What is fundamentally *different* between books and movies? Movies cost *huge* amounts of money to produce. And often start with buying the rights to A BOOK. DVDs are in your Public Library. Yet RedBox, Netflix, and BlockBuster rent them. And you can buy them at retail. The Public Library has killed neither rental nor sales.
What does RedBox rent movies for???
Is the Movie business *that* different? Why would a $2.99 eBook rental destroy the Publishing business when RedBox prices have not destroyed the Movie business?
The Cartel should view the Public Library as a marketing partner, not as a group of "Radical Militant Librarians".