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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 11, 2022

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I read a lot and find my self spending around 40$ a month buying books through Amazon for my kindle. It’s recently come to my attention that Amazon takes a whopping 70% cut for self published titles (https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200644210) ! Does anyone know what the range is for books that come from a real publisher? I may switch back to paper backs …

Things like this, and the fact that e-books are basically free to reproduce, help me justify pirating books. I would spend around that if not more if I bought all my books.

Typically I just pirate ebooks, then if I like it enough I'll buy a physical copy and/or donate directly to the author. A lot of times an author's website will have info on where to buy to give them the biggest cut.