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Originally Posted by jgaiser
You've lost me. So increased ebook sales is bad for authors and publishers?
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Maybe yes, because it is easier to pirate an eBook than a paper book. But that's not the issue. With few exceptions, publishers were putting out their popular titles as eBooks even before the Kindle.
The most plausible motive for Amazon charging $9.99 was to put competition out of business, and then use monopoly power to jack up the price for customers while giving publishers a lower and lower percentage.