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Originally Posted by tanstaafl28
$15.00 is still cheaper than hard-copy price.
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Sure. But think about it. If you, as - say - a self-publisher, POD your new novel through Amazon in TPB format for $15-$16, Amazon will give you 35% or $2.55-$2.80 of that price. On the other hand, for your ebook version, you get out of that same price $10.50-$11.20. And from the $9.99, you get about $6.99 from the ebook sale. So even if MacMillan stays with the $9.99 price, it gets more than what it would get from the paper book sales. (This, of course, presumes that MacMillan let Amazon do a POD version rather than supply it's own paper copies - and doing the latter means that MacM incurs all the printing costs so even with a special negotiated deal for the paper versions, it's possible MacM isn't actually getting $6.99 per copy into its coffers.)
MacM is just being greedy about ebooks.
Derek