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binaryhermit · 12-26-2020, 01:34 PM

And the agency model's good for Amazon, on, say, Ready Player Two they sell it for $14.99 because the publisher is trying to prop up dead tree book sales at the expense of ebooks, and pay the publisher approximately $4.50 whereas under wholesale they'd pay the publisher more like $14.50 (half the $28.99 list price) and sell it for whatever they wanted.

12-26-2020, 01:34 PM	#34
binaryhermit Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,732 Karma: 20469902 Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Lockport, IL Device: Kindle PW4, Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	And the agency model's good for Amazon, on, say, Ready Player Two they sell it for $14.99 because the publisher is trying to prop up dead tree book sales at the expense of ebooks, and pay the publisher approximately $4.50 whereas under wholesale they'd pay the publisher more like $14.50 (half the $28.99 list price) and sell it for whatever they wanted.