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Originally Posted by CommonReader
The point is if they will make any additional money. It would be rather pointless to replace e.g. revue of 1 million € selling a book as paper book with 600,000 € selling the same book as ebook for Kindle. Will people who buy books via Kindle buy so many more books than they would have bought as paper books to make it a good business for the publishers.
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I'm not sure how the publishers lose money here, though, as Amazon won't be able to charge less for e-books than for paper books, due to German no-discount laws.
And Kindle readers, at least in the US, do tend to buy more books, although I'm not sure what effect this has on the bottom line.
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This basically assumes that books are something of a commodity. If you don't get the book by author A for your Kindle you will buy the book by author B instead. Perhaps the market does work that way but I would have rather assumed that people would buy the book written by author A as a paper book instead of buying something different, just because the other book happens to be available for Kindle.
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I think it works both ways. If you're looking for a particular book, or for something by a particular author, you probably won't substitute a different book just because it is available on your kindle.
On the other hand, if you are potentially interested in a number of books, you may choose ones available for the Kindle over those not available. Likewise, if you are just browsing for something to read, you may limit yourself to what's available for the Kindle.