Thread: Amazon's $9.99 eBook Attacked as "Predatory Pricing"
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Old 12-21-2009, 11:11 PM   #147
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Originally Posted by ThomasMc View Post
What a load of horse manure. They don't have to print or ship anything, their only costs are a buck or two for royalties, and maybe a dollar for overhead. They are making $7 profit on a basically automated system. If the paperback is $8, the ebook should be more like $5.
The publishers demand more than a couple of bucks. Also Amazon does have a decent chunk of overhead (apart from the actual distribution hardware).

But still, $9.99 isn't predatory, it should be the norm for these ephemeral products with 'lower' overheads.
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