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Originally Posted by Keroberos
[ADDED THOUGHT]Also the articles author either does not understand, or is willfully misrepresenting how wholesale pricing works. This,is incorrect. Wholesale price is based on the number of units purchased. This is how it should look,This is how larger retailers can undercut the prices of smaller retailers (doesn't matter if it's electronic or physical).
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Yea, that struck me too as a
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The wholesale/agency number-comparisons they used were largely apples/oranges. I wasn't sure if it was sloppiness on the part of the reporter or a lame attempt at moving the pea. I didn't care enough to consider it carefully.
I don't really care how they price them. There are enough public domain five-star books out there that I can read until I'm 100 years dead and I'll still not come close to running out. In the rare event that a publisher entices me to actually
buy a book, he deserves as much as I'm willing to pay; he must surely have been a marketing genius!