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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
substantially more than 1.50 per book then?
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I think the cost on higher profile books like best sellers and new releases are much higher. There are a lot of inexpensive books also being offered, many of them self published. I think the authors of that article were probably aware that most people would read that snippet and think, "Wow! Amazon sells books for $9.99 and they only pay $1.50! They're ripping us off!" When people think of the Kindle store, they think of the $9.99 new releases and best sellers. They don't realize how many books are on there for $0.99. I wonder if they factored all the free books into that cost. That would be particularly sneaky.
What I would find more interesting than the average cost per title is the average net per book sold. The figure in the article is pretty meaningless if you don't know how many books sold at the various margins. Unfortunately Amazon doesn't release that kind of data.