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To: Grommit who wrote (8998)11/21/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: James Clarke  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 78627
 
A bookseller of any scale typically pays the publisher about 50% of the cover price for the book, so there is some margin to work with in between. The problem for the guys on the internet is that their price is pretty close to that 50% figure in an awful lot of cases, especially when you use the bots to comparison shop.