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Why "Run Your Own Mail Server" Is Not in Amazon's Kindle Store

• popcalc 2y ago
  >TLDR: Amazon pays roughly 70% of retail price for books priced up to $9.99, and 35% for books $10 and over. Amazon is the only retailer that does this. Other retailers, I make somewhere around 65%-70% no matter the retail price. Everything follows from that math, but if you want the details read on. Wow that's nuts.
• palata 2y ago
  Is that something that the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) could change (in Europe)?
• rekabis 2y ago
  I missed the “run your own mail server” kickstarter by a few short hours. If only Michael Lucas was selling physical books on the side…
  • agshekeloh 2y ago
    Working on it! Or, if you prefer, I'm helping Bookvault uncover bugs in their brand-new WP integration plugin. Decided not to wait for them to fix it to launch the book, because a fix might take forever. ==ml
• alextingle 2y ago
  Couldn't he just sell it in two volumes on Amazon, and charge $7.50 for each volume?
  • agshekeloh 2y ago
    I did that with the ZFS books. It was a right pain. Metadata management, confused readers, lots of administrative overhead. The next edition of the ZFS tome will also be a single volume. Amazon won't get the Kindle version. ==ml