We ran some numbers comparing Amazon's ebook pricing to BN, Sony and other retailers, and found that Amazon's prices were the lowest (or matched the lowest) for 74% of the 11K ebooks we looked at: http://inkmesh.com/blog/2009/11/30/amazon-barnes-and-noble-s.... So not only is Amazon losing money on ebooks, it is also competing mostly with itself in pushing ebook prices even lower.
Also worth mentioning - 92k of the 350k Kindle titles available on Amazon.com are priced above 9.99, so Amazon might not be losing as much money as the original study suggests.
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We ran some numbers comparing Amazon's ebook pricing to BN, Sony and other retailers, and found that Amazon's prices were the lowest (or matched the lowest) for 74% of the 11K ebooks we looked at: http://inkmesh.com/blog/2009/11/30/amazon-barnes-and-noble-s.... So not only is Amazon losing money on ebooks, it is also competing mostly with itself in pushing ebook prices even lower.
Also worth mentioning - 92k of the 350k Kindle titles available on Amazon.com are priced above 9.99, so Amazon might not be losing as much money as the original study suggests.