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Originally Posted by kazbates
I did a little research into my list of ebooks that are not yet available for replacement and found that they are all books published by Kensington. I went further and found that Kensington offers ebooks for sale on their website and the lit format is still available there. Of course, I have no intention of buying them again, but the fact that Kensington has their own ebook store and that the replacements are not yet available at Fictionwise is interesting.
The question begs to be asked: In this economy, why would a server who is being paid on time and per contract cut off a revenue source?  Even if the contract is with a competitor of sorts, why shoot yourself in the foot?
So many questions, so few answers. . .
Kaz |
All contracts have a cost associated with them. A cost to administer -- the legal and accounting stuff -- and a cost to execute the contract -- the server resources etc. Fictionwise admitted that OD was only a small part of their total sales so perhaps the costs to OD of keeping Fictionwise as a customer were higher than the profit they derived from the small Fictionwise sales. Thus profits can rise even though total sales decline (all other things being equal.)
The publishers will not take a major hit as most people will simply purchase the book through another retailer. (In this case total OD profits rise even more than the prior case while sales decline only slightly from those people that do not go elsewhere for the books.)