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This is a critical point. There’s a huge data set proving that digital books are a price-sensitive market, and that maximum revenues are achieved at a price point between $.99 and $4.99. So the question is: why aren’t publishers pricing digital books to maximize digital profits?

Joe: I also love print books. I have 5,000 of them. But print is just a delivery system. It gets a story from the writer to the reader. For centuries, publishers controlled this system, because they did the printing, and they were plugged into distribution. But with retailers like Amazon, B&N, and Smashwords, the story can get to the reader in a

Ingram’s other unique capability is “consumer-direct fulfillment.” They can ship a book in a box to anybody in the world and make it appear that it is coming from any client of theirs rather than from Ingram. So many publishers, booksellers, and other direct sellers of books use Ingram as their fulfillment capability for books ordered by consumers