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At a guess:
I'm not just talking about mom and pop stores though. Even Barnes and Noble is out priced, and, although it wasn't in my initial question, other smaller online-only retailers like thriftbooks and bookshop are also handily undercut by Amazon.
I'm not implying you're wrong, just that there's probably more to the picture here. I think volume and slim margins probably have a lot to do with it here as Amazon probably makes a handy profit on sales of non-book goods (and let's not forget that their product sales aren't even what makes them money, it's their cloud services) and as another commenter said Amazon passes some of the infrastructure costs on to the sellers.