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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
That's the price of selling anything anywhere. What is wholesale vs. retail except for skimming off the top of every product sold everywhere.
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Since the discussion has been about what authors pay to keep their works in print this only applies to authors who publish directly through a service provider (direct sales have no retail skim). Authors who work for traditional publishers don't keep their works in print. Trad-pub authors receive advances, write their books, and collect royalties. Everything else is managed by their publishers who are responsible for deciding what to keep in print and taking the actions necessary to do so.
I'll concede the point that authors who publish directly through Amazon or Apple, or trad-publishers who use their services, and sell no books pay nothing to keep those books listed.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
So, in a nutshell your complaint isn't that the cost is negligible, your complaint is that there is a cost at all.
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The complaint is that 30% of every sale (Apple's take) is being called "negligible".