Thread: "Publishers (often) earn more with wholesale than agency
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Old 06-29-2012, 04:55 AM   #3
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Where is this info applicable to? Which countries?

Is this relevant only to North America?

I'm wondering if what they're saying/doing has purchase in Europe, UK and elsewhere?

Anyone know what they're doing in Japan re ebook sales and the wholesale versus agency arena?
It's mostly relevant to North America (and perhaps UK) because depending on which country we're talking about, eBook might not necessarily have impacted the country. Here in the Philippines for example, Amazon is charging us $2.00 extra for every eBook, and if you purchase an eBook here, the publisher only gets 35% royalties (as opposed to 70% when it's between $2.99 ~ $9.99). Other popular stores won't even sell eBooks to us, which is what prompted the company I work for to setup our own eBook store.

For Japan, don't know whether they're using the wholesale method or agency, but outside of manga/comics, the rest of their eBook industry doesn't seem to be booming as some make it out to be. Here's the latest article I think: http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/wa...-robin-birtle/

I also can't find a link now but there was a power point presentation before presented in a Japanese seminar and the graphs showed that their eBooks were more expensive than their print counterparts.
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