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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Plus, most publishers don't host the books themselves, just like they don't sell the books directly themselves. They leave it to the retailers, who must bear most of the costs you mention, yet those retailers are not the ones who set the cost anymore.
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That's a good point I hadn't considered. On a different note, I noticed that ebooks on Amazon no longer say "Sold by Amazon," but "Sold by [X publisher]." At least ones from the big publishers. Unless it's always been that way and I never noticed, but I thought they used to say sold by Amazon.