Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:43 pm
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johnm wrote:I remember Amazon starting up as on-line book shop. In their current guise they're not very popular with Mrs Johnm as they take 60% margin on books leaving little for publisher and author. So when people ask about buying her book she either sells direct or guides them to High St bookshops.
Are you sure about the 60% figure, John? Doesn't square with what I've been told.
“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” Stephen Jay Gould