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Originally Posted by eschwartz
??? I said nothing other than that your bias is completely uninteresting and merely shows that YOU don't like them. That was not, in fact, my quote at all.
(By coincidence, I happen to like his books. But I would and do jump to the defense of books that I don't like, as well. For instance, HERE. In other words, it is not personal. Well, the book itself isn't personal, but I take your vitriol personally, on principal.)
22¢ per sale, according to this link: http://the-digital-reader.com/2011/0...obe-tax-today/
That is 22¢ less profit per sale, when the margin for books is apparently sending the publishers into (fake) anxiety attacks regardless.  |
Sorry I wasn't clear enough. I am aware of the 22 cents although I think I have seen lower somewhere.
I meant how much profit, overall not per individual copy. Saving 22 cents per book is significant, but if the profit margin is higher than 2.2% on a $10 book it doesn't take that many more sales percentage wise to drive up the profits.
At a profit margin of 22% per book selling 11 books instead of 10 is the break even point. Pretty sure they manage that at least in overall library sales for popular items. Probably better on individual sales.
Of course I am sure you know all that, just trying to be clearer.
And while not your wording, not saying you even agree, I disagree that the Adobe fee is a tax. Lots of fees I don't like. I go to the bank and exchange USD to CAD costs me 3%. Change it back it costs me 4%. (of course I have the USD account now to avoid that). But I often can't buy US goods without and additional fee over and above shipping and taxes. These, like Adobe DRM are fees not taxes. In fact Adobe is simply a charge for services bought and they do not hold a smoking gun to the publishers head. Same with the banks.
Publishers do not have to use Adobe DRM, and I do not have to buy or borrow books with Adobe or even Amazon DRM.
It may come to a point that paper books are not available for people to read or study from and then we will have a legitimate bitch.
Helen