Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati...
by Dylan16807 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:53PM
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> What Amazon wants to do here is squeeze the authors off their profit, and this must be prevented.
Authors typically get a 10-15% cut of print books. Amazon wants to squeeze the publishers off their profit. While they can be heavy-handed and exploitative, they are much less so than traditional publishing. It's not abnormal for an author to make more money of a $9.99 kindle sale than a $25 print sale.
Authors typically get a 10-15% cut of print books. Amazon wants to squeeze the publishers off their profit. While they can be heavy-handed and exploitative, they are much less so than traditional publishing. It's not abnormal for an author to make more money of a $9.99 kindle sale than a $25 print sale.