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I should add that the 35% they pay us isn't because we're on any particular Amazon scheme. This is their standard agreement when we put any ebooks with them. They can pay 35% for sales to a large number of countries, and they can pay a lower commission if they find the book offered at a competitive rate elsewhere. They call the payment to us 'royalties' although we're the publisher, and they seem to take the rights of a publisher with an unfair kind of contract. We don't have a contract with our authors that would let us do this so it's very annoying that an online bookseller would do it.
And in answer to the question - yes, they do it because they can. But they're doing it WHILE they can too, because once publishers can sell on more websites in other formats it won't work for them any more.
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