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Originally Posted by murraypaul
No offence, but you seem to actually not know really quite a lot about how book sales work, so perhaps you should stop making quite so many pronouncements?
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I didn't realise I was making any pronouncements, I thought I was expressing an opinion.
The web article I quoted clearly shows that Amazon was buying e-books under the old ‘sale or return’ or ‘warehouse’ system as they now call it and not the more common ‘agency’ system.
It would seem that, that was the method Amazon used up until 2010. What they use now I have no idea, as I've already stated.
If you feel by that means I
“actually not know really quite a lot about how book sales work” that of course is entirely your prerogative.
However, I have worked for 30 odd years within the publishing industry. That of course doesn’t make me an expert on it, but it does mean I know something about it.
I’m getting the distinct feeling though, that this is a place where alternative opinions that happen to conflict with the majority view are not welcome.