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You need to look closely at the conditions for commission on Amazon. They give themselves a lot of ways that more than 30% commission can be taken. This is affecting us as we do have sales to Australia and other countries that fall into these categories. I'm guessing it's Australia that's affecting us at the moment but there will be others. For sales to Australia it seems they always take 65%. You can see the full list of countries where they pay 70% and for all other countries it's 65%. That's a large number of countries. They also have a clause that says they can lower the commission if there's a competitive price offered elsewhere for the book.
You don't do the full edit twice - the whole editing process actually lasts for months as publishers work with an author, so that part doesn't have to be repeated. But a professional publisher will have at least two people doing a close proofread after work has been done on a book, and particularly after a file conversion such as an ebook. Various typos and other errors will creep in during an ebook conversion and they don't show up as they can seem like correct spellings. For a professional book all sorts of other details also have to be correct. Some publishers do use proofreaders who are particularly experienced with ebooks as they know some of the main errors to watch out for - you'll know some of the ones that creep in with each type of conversion. But you do have to read the whole file. One good thing with ebooks is that you can change them if an error shows up later, but really you don't want to have mistakes in a book you're selling.
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