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Old 05-09-2008, 05:16 PM   #27
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Maybe I'm being stupid - often the case - but I'm not sure I see the arument here. You think that the publishers won't notice that Amazon is using basically the same format to publish books cheaper?

In any case, why does Amazon need to tread carefully? Who do you think really owns the book market today - Amazon or the publishers?
Oh, they know about it. They just don't care. In this case we are talking about books licensed to Mobipocket from publishers. The publisher sets the retail price, and the publisher gets paid a percentage of that retail price for each book sold.

Mobipocket sells ebooks, but it also distributes ebooks to other retail websites. Amazon is of the retailers. If Amazon chooses to sell some ebooks for less than retail, it doesn't matter to the publisher because the publisher's cut is based on the suggested retail price. The amount the publisher is paid doesn't change if the ebook is sold for less.
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