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I buy a $10 book on Google Books, $3 goes to Google, $7 goes to the publisher. I buy the same on the Kindle Android app, $3 goes to Google, ?? goes to Amazon, <
by muzani 3y ago
I buy a $10 book on Google Books, $3 goes to Google, $7 goes to the publisher. I buy the same on the Kindle Android app, $3 goes to Google, ?? goes to Amazon, < $7 goes to the publisher.
Since Amazon had been selling books on the Kindle app for a while, I assume they made more than 30% to be worth it, or pushed the cost to the publishers? Or probably worked out some deal with Google, which seems a bit unlikely.
- cyberax 3y agoFor a long while everybody ignored the Google's cut from the purchases. Google only started enforcing it a couple of years ago.
- muzani 3y agoAh that makes sense. I think the workaround was that you could pay without entering payment information, but Google didn't go into every app to enforce this at the time.
- orwin 3y agoAmazon's cut is 60%, 75% if you're not in an Amazon exclusivity deal (you also won't get boosted). So basically Google 3$, Amazon 4$, publisher 3$. If you go to Amazon marketplace directly, Amazon gets 6$, publisher gets 4$. Amazon complaining about predatory marketplace is rich.