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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Every last one of the bookstores (and device manufacturers) pays Adobe, which either comes out of their profits or jacks up the price. That Adobe tax is paid on every ebook sold forever and ever and amounts to a significant slice of the *profit* in an ebook sale. (It is a fixed amount, not a percent, so for cheap ebooks it can run 10% or more of the retailer's gross margin.)
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22c per purchase, to be specific.
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every ePub bookstore uses Adobe's DRM, BTW. Apple don't, for example.