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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
They know what price Amazon is selling them for right now; they won't know if Amazon runs short-term sales unless they're tracking every single title they sell and have a constant feed updating when the price changes.
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Even if they had a constant feed, they would have no way of knowing whether Amazon sold 100 or 1,000 copies at the sale price. The wholesale price that Amazon pays the publisher would not change based on Amazon's selling price. In addition, there is no way to know, in the absence of data from Amazon, how much money Amazon collected for a particular publisher's books. The only thing a publisher would know is that in the gross, Amazon sold x copies and paid y wholesale price for those copies.