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Originally Posted by pilotbob
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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Less on the ebook than before the agency model. Umm... so yes, in that particular instance, assuming thet priced the ebook the same as the paperback before the agency model, and I guessed right about the discount. $10 before and $10.49 after.
If we assume they weren't lying, it means I must have guessed the pre-agency discount wrong. Perhaps they got 55% of the price. In which case:
pre-agency: 55% of $20 = $11
after: 70% of $14.99 = $10.49
But I would have thought that pre-agency they were likely to have been getting /less/ than 50% of RRP, not more than 50%, since the 'standard' industry discount for paper books is 55%, leaving the publisher with 45%.
Of course, this is just one book. It'll take looking at lots of books after things settle down to see if the big publishers are using the agency model as they said they would.