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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
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Switching DRM is not free. Again, why would Amazon voluntarily give away 20-25c per sale to another company?
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That's the price adobe asks ? Bah, ditch the drm ! |
Those are the figures that have been mentioned here several times. Adobe don't make the costs public on their website.
If you figure a $10 Agency book, Amazon's revenue is $3. So they would be giving up around 8% straight off the top if they had to pay Adobe 25c.
Even if they did switch to ePub they would do so with their own homegrown DRM, just to save on costs.
I think the numbers show that in the US the biggest three bookstores are Amazon, B&N and Apple. They all use their own DRM schemes. Only the smaller players use Adept.