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Re:​Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine by criddell on Monday March 07, 2016 @07:15PM (#11242741)
> Amazon sold many of the most popular e-books at a loss

Does Amazon also sell books at a loss?

I understand that the price of something isn't determined by the costs of the inputs, but ebooks are often more expensive than having Amazon retrieve a paperback from their warehouse, put it in a box, then pay UPS to bring it to my front door.

Is it possible that an ebook at $9.99 is sold for a loss while the paperback for $8.99 is profitable?

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Re:​Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine by fryguy on Monday March 07, 2016 @09:51PM (#11243275)
Amazon moved to an agency model for ebooks (where the publisher sets the price, and Amazon gets 30%) a few years back for this exact reason. So I think the answer to that is no. Amazon cannot sell an ebook at a loss because it doesn't set the price.
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Re:​Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine by criddell on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @08:01AM (#11244923)
Wow, I didn't realize that. eBook prices still swing around a lot and I assumed that was Amazon.
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