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Originally Posted by jswinden
And don't forget that Amazon gives the publisher only about 30% or so on each book sold but keeps the rest. So if Apple wants to stiff Amazon for 30% that still leaves the a$$holes with 40%, which is more than the publisher/author gets. That is really darn good money for Amazon considering they don't do a darn thing to earn it other than allow the author to list their books. (Well at least in my case, I think I get about 30$ from the sales.)
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In what world does Amazon get 70%? OK, yes for some self-pubbed stuff if it doesn't fall in certain pricing categories yes (like the $0.99 books), but with Agency 30% was Amazon's cut of the sale, not sure how much that's changed with new contracts while coming off Agency, but it certainly didn't go from 30% to 70%. They've never gotten that much from main stream publishers.