On clawfoot tub

I bought a Kindle only because I'm traveling and don't want to pay the horrendous shipping costs of having a paper book mailed, and I'd have to wait I don't know how many weeks, and may not get them at all. One problem is buying books by mainstream publishers. To attempt to discourage people from buying Kindle books, they keep their book prices high. Many are from 10 to 20, which means they actually lose money on each sale, because they get only 35% royalty, but from 3 to 9.99 they get 70%. That also means they're cheating the authors, who get a percentage of the royalties the publisher collects, so they can't buy a clawfoot tub. So I for one don't buy many new books, only ones I really think I need to get some information out of.