Of course, there's a lot of grumbling about Amazon and how they are swallowing up the whole publishing business by undercutting publisher prices--which causes publishers to drop authors and authors to have to turn to doing horrible things like getting real jobs or go on welfare.
Now comprising 120 volumes, the series has sold more than 150 million copies, according to its publisher, Price Stern Sloan, an imprint of the Penguin Young Readers Group.
Congregation of Innocents: Five Curious Tales with an Introduction by Patrick McGrath is available to buy from publisher, priced £8 plus p&p.
For every book, this information includes the ISBN number, author name, title, category, BISAC number, publisher, price, total weekly sales across US and weekly sales in different geographical districts.
Numbers could quantify the scope, the revenue, the profit margins, and the number of people who cannot afford publishers' prices.
Amazon claims to offer 2.5m titles, which computer users can search through 24 hours a day, then order, often at a discount to the publishers' prices, and have delivered in as little as two days.
Stores are undercutting publishers' prices.
As for Mr. Sharpes's comments, publishers price books (which is their right) and booksellers sometimes discount them (which is their right).
"However, these markets are prohibitively expensive for many web publishers, pricing models vary widely, and negotiations can take months to complete," claims VideoElephant.
Along with this, it's not allowed to make deals with publishers that will impact how those publishers price books with other distributors who by definition would compete against Apple.
The problem of high prices from big publishers is not an agency pricing issue, it's a problem of big publishers pricing their books too high.
