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thinkpad · 02-11-2010, 06:14 AM

I find this blog post very interesting on the take of the whole Amazon/Macmillan feud.
http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknews...del_151605.asp

Link to original report:
http://www.tbiresearch.com/not-all-m...y-model-2010-2

Quote:
"The reason is that book publishers make less money from the agency model than they do from the traditional wholesale model (in which Amazon buys a book license at the full wholesale price, and then sells each copy for whatever it wants, often losing money on the sale)."

02-11-2010, 06:14 AM	#1
thinkpad David Posts: 1,808 Karma: 8916183 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Norway Device: Kindle, E.Edge (sold), Irex Iliad (retired)	Not All Publishers Pyched About Apple's Agency Model I find this blog post very interesting on the take of the whole Amazon/Macmillan feud. http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknews...del_151605.asp Link to original report: http://www.tbiresearch.com/not-all-m...y-model-2010-2 Quote: "The reason is that book publishers make less money from the agency model than they do from the traditional wholesale model (in which Amazon buys a book license at the full wholesale price, and then sells each copy for whatever it wants, often losing money on the sale)."