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I'm quite sure it's a great book. But like I'm really impressed for the first thing this book has taught me and it's not about games... It's just unbelievable how much money Amazon makes selling books!

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I went on to a publisher site to buy ebook because kindle version is not available, and during checkout I was thrown out because mysterious error message.

I do think Amazon is winning for a game reason.

Same happened to me with the Pearson site recently. Customer service took days to reply and their response was some version 'try writing us back at this email since they handle your specific problem better than we do.' Its ridiculous how hard it gets to give people your money

edit: still locked out of my cart on Pearson

Yeah, I know this is becoming common and online markets are a race to a bottom, but in stark numbers like this...it really feels like there isn't a good ending to this story.

As long as I can remember it’s been this way, authors have always made very tiny percentage royalties on physical books. I don’t know what the figures are like for digital distribution but if they aren’t better it’s a travesty.

That’s because it costs money to print (and maybe pulp) physical books. It doesn’t cost anything to “print” a digital book

Well, Richard Bach writes in The Bridge Across Forever that royalties from Jonathan Livingston Seagull made him rich (before he overspent it), so I assume this is more recent phenomena. Granted it's a bit different level of "bestseller" though...

It's huge, especially considering how much pushback Apple gets for charging app developers "only" 30%. Really shows how little leverage book publishers have today.

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