Thread: Guardian: "New Amazon Terms Amount to 'Assisted Suicide' for Book Industry"
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Old 06-27-2014, 08:11 AM   #47
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Just to insert a datapoint, on the sale of a $69.95 book in the Amazon Marketplace by an outside seller, Amazon's commission is $12.83, over 18 percent.

Tidy sum for just running some servers and charging a credit card.
It's a free market. Anyone who believes that they can offer a better service at a lower price is entirely free to do so. Nobody's forcing anyone to use Amazon's service.
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