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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm afraid your logic eludes me. Why would you run?
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I'd expect the small print has a clause where Amazon only pay a % of kindle ebook purchases for X years. After that time Amazon keep 100% and that customer will now probably buy all their books via Amazon including the odd paperback.
The bookstores have to hope that when it comes time for that customer to upgrade to a new kindle they do so at a B&M store so they can get a new % going for a few years. If not, their customer base will slowly shrink. Assuming Amazon haven't grown their customer base to their target and decide to stop the % share for future purchases.
Perhaps my experience is different from the norm, but I bought my kindle in a B&M store and have never been back as my purchases for ebooks are via Amazon now (although I occasionally buy elsewhere and convert). Had this scheme been in operation then, they'd have had a short time of getting money from my purchases and then lost me as a customer.
Now if they sell epub and the readers they sell are epub readers, it makes a little more sense. There's a chance a customer will buy books from their store and not the device makers store, but with Amazon that's a lot less likely imo since the books would need to be sold DRM free in order to get them on the kindle without Amazon's support and there's still too many publishers not willing to part with DRM.