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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Rowling isn't, but my friend who's a mid-list mystery author has stopped making sales, because her books on Amazon are offered right next to used ones for $2.00 + shipping.
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Well, I hope I made it plain that I have no idea how the money flow works in publishing, so I am assuming that your friend's example is that it is more that the author is on a commission instead of the retailer.
I assumed the author would get a given amount of the wholesale price, and the retailer messing around with the gap between wholesale and suggested retail (or below) would have no effect on that, since once the retailer pays the price, they can't go back and say "I'm not going to pay that price because I chose to sell it for less."
Just as I assume if the ebook device manufacturer sells to Fry's at a given price, if Fry's decides to sell below what they paid for it, that's Fry's problem, not the manufacturer's.
But that is why we have this forum. To learn. In this case, consider my post a bit of brainstorming cuz I'm trying to understand.