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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Wow. That was uncalled for.
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Nah, i AM batshit insane

but im never one to go trolling just to go trolling. If I have a opinion, regardless of how batshit insane it is, I'll post it. If the other party and I dicker back and forth long enuff, I'll learn some things, they'll learn some things, but I'll STILL be batshit crazy!
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@everyone, rather than railing against Amazon let's put this in perspective. Amazon buys pbooks at that discount (or something close), as does Wal-mart, Borders, B&N, as well as any large distributor. It's the normal discount that publishers give to distributors. (The major chain stores get it becuase they do they own distributing.)
It was carried over from pbooks to ebooks. I know that Mobipocket and Fictionwise pay at about the same discount, and I would bet that the other distributors like Overdrive and Ingrm Digital do as well. It's _normal_.
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the publishers are making money hand over fist selling the ebooks in the 'normal' manner of pbooks. That field is changing, and authors are going to be making more money eventually as the publishing world catches up.
Until then, it seems as though many publishers KNOW, but are putting blinders on in order to ride the wave as long as possible.
(yeah, i know, blinders and surfing. doesnt match. sue me)