Thread: Used to be new book prices dropped, now they are increasing
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Old 11-06-2009, 05:09 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by juj1n View Post
You also have to remember that amazon sells their ebooks at a loss. They make up for that with the kindle sales and from their other sources of revenue but there are speculations that amazon won't be able to keep up with their ebook prices forever. Whether that's true or not... we'll just have to wait and find out I guess.

How do you figure? Have you seen the costs involved?

I don't know if that is true or not. It's really not Amazon that controls the price, but the publisher, so what you are saying may very well be true, but if so I believe it is only an artificial price set based on the print book.
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