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Old 03-29-2011, 10:09 PM   #120
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
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.
Apple a big bookstore? HAHAHAHAHA!

It's not always who sells the most as a single store. ePub with Adept is sold all over the world. So when you take that into consideration, it is the #1 DRMed format.
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