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In a world where Amazon has 80 per cent of the. Market, withholding books from Amazon means courting financial ruin. It would be a big risk, even if you could get past the collusion thing and the cost of converting to drm free mobi. I think what's inevitable is that the publishers will move to opening their own stores where they'll set their own prices. Last edited by stonetools; 06-30-2012 at 02:12 PM. |
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I also want to mention that before the publishers went Agency model, Amazon was only giving 35% royalties to publishers (self-published or otherwise), within a certain price point.
A few days separate from Apple's launch of iBooks, Amazon increased the royalties to 70%, within certain regions (if you buy a book here in the Philippines, you still get 35%) and within certain price points ($2.99 ~ $9.99). And beyond the $9.99 price point, Amazon actually dictates the terms (less royalties and certainly less profitable than setting the eBook price at $9.99... that's why the Baen eBook Bundles aren't available at Amazon, because it stops being profitable for Baen under Amazon's terms) so they have influenced the price of eBooks in the market. |
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