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Fascinating. I assume this is self publishing (vs this article which is about the large publishers?) When you mention 35% royalties are you saying that Amazon g

Fascinating. I assume this is self publishing (vs this article which is about the large publishers?) When you mention 35% royalties are you saying that Amazon gives you 70% of the street price you set to them? However, if your street price is more than $20 they drop that to 35% to you? Also, do any of the agreements require you, if you sell in other locations, that the price listed must match the price you told them? Ie - are they using a MFN clause like that listed in the article above?

podperson 15y ago
AFAIK Amazon doesn't have an MFN clause. (Does Apple still w.r.t. books? I thought that's past tense.) If I am willing to sell for under $10 Amazon offers a 70% royalty (less various charges -- effectively 60%) in some regions, 35% in others, and if the price is over $10 then it's 35% (with no deductions). Oh my original post is confused -- books over __$10__ are limited to a 35% royalty (which is a huge poverty trap) In all cases I'm talking percentage of my set selling price. (Perhaps Amazon wants to discount my books and still have enough margin to pay my royalty -- that's a lot of wiggle room -- they can sell my $20 book for $10 and make just as much money off it as if I'd set the cover price at $10. From Apple, Barnes & Noble, etc. it's 70% minus some admin charge -- effectively 65% or so -- across the board. Note that Apple does cap prices for "textbooks" created with iBookauthor at $14.99. I guess in the end this doesn't matter much since we can always split books into parts, but the fact is that Amazon's business model currently involves: * paying less to writers than anyone else * evading state sales taxes by fair means and foul * being the only vendor of ebook readers that can't read DRM-free ePubs out-of-the-box