Thread: Boycott all books over 9.99!!
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Old 02-11-2009, 03:57 AM   #41
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And it takes a very high book price for Amazon to make a loss on selling and eBook at £9.99. Amazon pays publishers 35% of the retail price. So they'd only actually lose money on books with a retail over $28.50

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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The prices are set by publishers. "Mega-corporations" like Amazon can afford to take the hit of selling best-sellers at a loss. Small eBook stores clearly cannot. The original poster is somewhat misguided, IMHO.
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