[citation][nom]Naxos[/nom]Have these authors ever been to library? My god what are they thinking at these places loaning books to people without charging them. Maybe Amazon should stop selling these greedy authors titles see how they like that. But that will never happen cause in the end it's all about the $$[/citation]
amazon is big enough that it could easily dump authors that complain and not feel much of anything. it may annoy some people who have kindles but o well.
[citation][nom]tolham[/nom]i don't see why amazon needs to do business with publishers in the first place. if an author types their book on a laptop/computer, they can send a copy to amazon, then amazon can publish it. what's the point of a middle-man?[/citation]
that middle man get a slightly beter going rate than an author alone, and at the same time, they can get advertiseing for the book, cheaper, and with better know how.
the people who dont need a publisher at all for people to know of their books, already sighed major agreements with publishers and cant really leave unless they can deal with the legal troubles that will follow them.
[citation][nom]Niva[/nom]The issue is simple, the publishers refused to participate, yet Amazon went ahead and placed their content there. This has the potential to blow up both ways. The idea of E-lending books is based on the way physical libraries operate, but is not quite the same in the end. Ultimately, if the publishers said "no" their request to stay out of the service should have been honored.[/citation]
if it was up to what the middle men want, you would pay money every time you want to see a movie, listen to a song... listen to some of the crap that the middle men said during the vhs era before movies went to it, its disturbing, or more recently the mp3 era, or even when you could just buy a song and listen to it till the record wore out.
[citation][nom]hoof_hearted[/nom]I guess Redbox and Blockbuster shouldn't give out promo codes either.[/citation]
you have anyidea how much of a (blank)storm was casued by the idea of lending out a movie back in the day? it came to the point where they went to court to be able to lend movies. in japan nintendo led the way to outlaw renting games at all, and police enforce this more than anti prostitution laws way.
[citation][nom]v1ze[/nom]It could also be that Amazon is eating this cost as a way of potentially getting new customers through extra features.[/citation]
no, most of the cost in a book goes toward printing it, transporting, and some advertising. id say on a 20$ book, its about half the cost if not 15$ of it. if you cut all the fat off of it for digital, its probably closer to at most 10$ a book, im guessing between 5 and 10 for wholesale. amazon is probably breaking even, and many of these may cost far less than that.
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