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Old 07-15-2009, 02:44 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga View Post
Actually, something here doesn't add up. If publishers made $2.15 in profit on an e-book and only 29¢ profit on a paper book, they'd be over the moon about the e-books. That's probably why I misread it at first, assuming that paper books making more for the publishers.

It also seems very unlikely that Amazon will routinely boost e-book prices to $12.95 for all their books, especially if B&N's e-books wind up with that pricing (as they apparently plan). More likely is that they're hammering on the $9.99 price point, make a profit on most books at that price point anyway, and will use whatever means at their disposal to get the publishers to cut their wholesale e-book pricing.
Assuming they could sell as many copies of an E-book as they can of a P-book.

E-books are still a tiny tiny niche in the publishing world. Estimates are E-book sales are 2% to 4% of the P-book sales.
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