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		fennecfoxen on June 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000% Personally, I'd be more depressed by something that says "Amazon charges authors $2.58 to deliver an e-book (after 30% cut)" than some big fancy number like that 129,000%. It's more meaningful.

MBCook on June 12, 2012 | [–]

I agree. "Amazon's takes 55% of my ebook sales" or "Amazon's hidden 25% ebook fee" would have meant quite a bit more.

smackfu on June 15, 2012 | [–]

Actually, it seems like the delivery fee reduces the effective retail price of the book, like: royalty = 70% x ($10 - delivery fee)

He just has a really big delivery fee.

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