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Old 03-10-2011, 02:27 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Doesn't that depend how much profit they're making per book? If the book is costing them $11, then:

Sell 10,000 ebooks at $14 each = $30,000 profit
Sell 20,000 ebooks at $10 each = $20,000 loss

I'm not suggesting that it does cost $11, of course, but there's more to it than you suggest.
Once the eBook is out there, the money is spent except for the cost to add DRM. So there does come a point where X number of copies at Y price is where they break even and X+1 is where they make a profit.
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