Thread: BooksOnBoard reports major changes in ebook pricing
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Old 04-04-2010, 01:28 PM   #89
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Assuming a 50% discount to Amazon on the print price, Amazon are making $3.60 from the print sale, and $4.50 from the Kindle sale. And the publishers are making $10 less printing/storage costs (so, say $8) from the print sale, and $10.49 from the Kindle sale.

So both retailer and publisher and making /more/ per sale from the Kindle ebook than from the print book sale, and the consumer is paying more.
But Macmillan told us they would make LESS for book with the Agency model. Are you saying there were not honest about that. Oh the humanity!

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