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Originally Posted by Lemurion
However, even with both on the wholesale model, there is no evidence whatsoever that the price Amazon pays for an eBook is based off the price of the paper edition, making your previous contention that the much lower price of the Kindle edition in comparison to the paper edition was predatory pricing somewhat difficult to defend.
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Well if you’d bothered to read the article I quoted from and gave you the link to you would have read for yourself (and understood how it was related to the paper edition) what pricing model Amazon were using:
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With the launch of the Kindle, Amazon promoted a low baseline price of $9.99 for most e-books. That meant that Amazon was selling virtually all newly published e-books at a loss. For example: A new book with a hardcover list price of $29.95 would be given an e-book price of $23.95 — 20 percent less to account for the publisher’s savings in printing, binding and distribution. The publisher would sell that e-book to Amazon for $12, and Amazon would retail it for $9.99, taking a $2 loss.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/ever...ook_price_war/
No doubt that is
no evidence whatsoever and will also be waved away as rubbish!
