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Old 02-08-2010, 04:38 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by Pardoz View Post
- the publisher decides the price they want to (try to) sell e-books at.
- the publisher tells Amazon '(Try to) sell this e-book for $X'
- in the unlikely event Amazon sells a copy of the e-book, Amazon keep 30% and kick 70% back to the publisher.
I like the wording there. Amazon will TRY and sell e-books at $15, $20 but it will put a significant dent in things. Amazon obviously has data on e-book sales at different prices and know that the volume sold at $9.99 is a lot higher than $15. From their perspective they make a lot more money from selling 100'000 $9.99 books compared to 20'000 $15.99 books.

Publishers simplay wanted control of pricing so they could manipulate it to suit print sales. It's not a good situation.
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