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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If the publishers are paid on the wholesale model, where they make a certain amount per sale, regardless of Amazon's price, they'd have to track all their books to find out if any are being sold below retail price--and then they'd need a way to force Amazon to hand over the record of how many they sold at the lower price.
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THe settlement didn't say "any" book it said Amazon "must show a profit overall for all the books it sells from that publisher’s catalogue". The publisher will know how much they paid Amazon in that month or year. All they need to know is how much of Amazon's income came from that publisher's ebooks in that period. Say Amazon got $20,000 from Hachette sales and in the same month they paid Hachette $18,000 they overall made a profit of $2,000. Some books may have been sold at a loss but that doesn't matter. They don't need to provide numbers for individual titles.