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Originally Posted by leebase
Amazon paid the normal wholesale rate. HOWEVER, Amazon was training the market that $9.99 was the appropriate price for just release best sellers....when publishers had $25/30 as the price (with discounting down to $20ish).
And after Amazon runs all of the publishers other clients out of business....
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Well, except for Baen, who seems to have missed the memo that publishers can't survive on less than $13 ebooks for new releases. Some of us had already been trained to the idea that ebooks should be $6, not $10.
I spent $10 on ebooks today... for four books. None of them are NYT bestsellers, but I'm familiar with 3 of the authors & know I'll love reading those, and the fourth is a Hugo-Nebula nominee, so odds are good that I'll at least find it interesting. I'd say "I'm set for books for a while," but really, I expect to be done with those before Friday, and maybe before Wednesday night.
When I run out of enjoyable books without DRM for under $6, I'll reconsider my purchasing habits. In the meantime, authors who figure out how to offer their works in my price range have a chance of getting money from me; authors who go through the DRM publishers don't.