@Elfwreck: I'm ignorant about what these ebook selling arrangements look like. With paper books, I could guess that a publisher could limit how much a store sold by capping how many paper copies they gave them. Do they have the same sort of leverage with electronic copies? Or does the store get to sell as many as they can get away with once they have a copy of the ebook file? If the latter, it would leave the publishers' other markets more vulnerable to Amazon's price-cutting than it did with paper books, wouldn't it?
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