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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Significant profit might be a penny per epub, if enough epub's are sold. We would think the market for epubs has already gotten to the significant level for Amazon, hence the OP.
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Uh, the cheapest ebooks sell for US$0.99, most sell for much more.
A one cent per book profit equals essentially zero margin and zero times a million is still zero.
Amazon is willing to live with low margins in the 5% range but zero (or even 1%) is no justification to go after a market they don't *need*. If the epub market is only good for 1% margin, I can guarantee Bezos will be happy to cede it to the competition.
Some customers aren't worth pursuing and *if* the epub market is only good for that much after kissing adobe's...ring... Amazon is better off without it.
And I still think epub has a better chance of prospering without Amazon so be careful what you wish for; the law of unintended consequences is very real.