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Originally Posted by Leep
If a paperbook sells for $25 which includes paper, cover, printing, shipping, overstock and point of purchase personnel and an ebook sells for $9.99, how can they possibly be losing money on the ebook which is on demand and only uses an existing website?
Cannot understand the economics unless every paper book sold also loses money. Publishers (and Amazon) cannot be that dumb that they would agree on an unrealistic price that the market has indicated it will not pay. Maybe a couple of publishers and a couple of authors will try to hold out, but if you can deliver and sell a product for a profit, that's good business.
cheers
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Easy. If the cost to Amazon is $15 then they're making a $10 profit on the paperbook while losing $5 on the ebook. Remember that they have no more right to produce multiple copies of the ebook than you do. (That should probably include 'without payment' as I'm sure they actually do produce the copies themselves, but they're required to pay that hypothetical $15 for each copy they produce, no matter what they sell it for.)