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Old 03-31-2009, 01:02 PM   #161
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Bear in mind that for pbooks around 50% to 65% of the list price goes to the distributor & retailer, not the publisher.

The same is true of eBooks! Quite astonishing.
That's insane! I didn't know that at all. I was labouring under the impression that the lion's share went to the publishers. So that then means that if a writer, say a Stephen King who has more money than he could ever possibly spend, set up an online imprint of his own, he could offer ebooks at a substantially lower price than other online retailers and make even more money? I wonder why none of the big writers has done this yet?
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