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Originally Posted by darryl
Thanks for the reply. If we are lucky, perhaps someone here does know why that is and will enlighten us.
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It is simple economics. When Google puts an ebook on sale: the publisher still gets their commission/royalty/paid/whatever you want to call it on the list price of the book. If Amazon sets to zero or on sale: the publisher gets commission/royalty on that price. The good/bad thing is except for the big guys Amazon tends to price match Google. They apparently have bots to check that.
Now the downside to that is if an author puts a book free at Kobo or Google to get a price match sometimes they get it and sometimes they get a letter.