Thread: Future of Ebook Sales - Cost of Ebooks to Amazon
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Old 10-13-2009, 05:17 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by kindlekitten View Post
substantially more than 1.50 per book then?
For the new best-selling $26 ebooks, Amazon probably pay the publishers $13. So yes, the $9.99 best-sellers are loss-leaders for Amazon.

Baen get by selling the ebook version of $26 hardbacks for $6. But then, they're not paying silly money to DRM suppliers. And they have a clue about ebooks, unlike most publishers.
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