Can someone explain the market economics behind Kindle books being more expensive than the paperback versions? Is it as simple as, demand for Kindle versions is higher, we can make more money from Kindle version, therefore, $X price? @FreakyTheory @patio11 @benthompson @amazon
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Amazon will happily undercut MSRP on physical books, because they're more efficient than every other seller of books, and your margin is their opportunity. Amazon will happily undercut *themselves* on Kindle, because it reorients reading behavior to start in Amazon ecosystem.
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Publishers basically don't want to turn off Amazon distribution but really, really don't want a world in which Amazon owns every producer and consumer of the written word and then says "Actually, strictly speaking... we don't need you, Big Five. At all." So they set prices high.
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We cannot sell the Kindle version of our books more expensive than paper, on Amazon and beyond. It has happened to me due to a mistake and I quickly got a menazing email.
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But if we could it would make sense because the royalty is much lower in Kindle ebooks. To make the same amount of money per book you would have to sell the ebook more expensive
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