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Old 11-07-2009, 11:50 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
I suppose the $1.50 could be an unrealistic, but accurate, average if taking into account all the really inexpensive self published books in the Kindle catalog.
And let's not forget the books that probably cost Amazon nothing. Of course I don't have a Kindle so haven't examined the Kindle catalog, but in every other ebook catalog I've found books being sold that are available free via Manybooks/Gutenberg. Maybe the seller pays for these books, but I can't see why. (In fact, I can't see why they're charging for them at all-other than greed. I can see them offering the books, both to inflate their catalog & to provide 'everything here' service, but I can't see why they charge for them.)
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