Thread: E-book of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol outsells the hardback on Amazon
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Old 09-16-2009, 12:27 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Crowl View Post
Assuming that its amazon taking the hit on the ebook price and not the publisher then they aren't even losing profits by the ebook version doing better than the hardback version, so maybe they will be able to look at this in a positive manner.
A lost hard cover sale may be worth two or more eBook sales from a profit perspective. Amazon selling at a loss doesn't necessarily leave the publisher with an equally/more attractive profit than paper books would.

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