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Originally Posted by nonanon
...yet you don't hear authors worrying that Costco is cutting into their livelihood. ...
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Because it's not threatening them in anyway. Most contracts give the author $X for each copy of the book sold to a retailer, regardless of the price the retailer paid the publisher for those books. The actual sale price doesn't affect the author's take in most cases, unless they have a crappy contract and get a % rather than a set dollar amount.
As long as that stays the same with e-books, all is well in my mind. If the author gets $4 for a trade paperback that sells for say $13.99, they should get $4 for an e-book of it that sells for $9.99. It's the publishers that has cost and effort reduced by not having to print a physical book. The author's work was the same regardless of the format it's sold in.