Thread: Kindle book prices have increased?
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Old 02-03-2010, 01:21 PM   #15
Pardoz
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Originally Posted by Batgirl13 View Post
The co-worker said he had read that the Publishers are the ones forcing Amazon the increase in their prices, as they want their money, and Amazon was setting their own price.
Pretty much accurate, yes. There are finer details it leaves out, like Steve Jobs' role in this fiasco. There's plenty of discussion about it here on MR - looks in the News and Discussion forum if you're interested.

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In America, shouldn't a wholesaler have a set price, and sell it to the retailer, who then decides if they want a 10, 50 or 100% profit on the merchandise?
Yup. That's why Macmillan (and other publishers) don't want Amazon to be a retailer anymore. They want to (Macmillan already has) convert Amazon into a commissioned sales agent, so the publisher tells Amazon how much to sell the book for, and then pays Amazon a percentage of the sale price for every copy they sell. Again, I'll point you at the numerous discussions about this in the News forum here on MR (and pretty much everywhere else e-books get talked about a lot) for more information or to discuss whether this is good/bad/indifferent.
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