Amazon ’s finally got some competition — and may be about to geteven more — so they ’re doing everything they can to stick around private-enterprise , and to keep publishers happy . This means high revenue cuts , but also new rules . Interesting rule .
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The new system works like this : If they elect to publish under this new programme , newspaper publisher are entitled to 70 % of a books sale price , minus delivery costs , at $ 0.15 / MB . ( Amazon says the ordinary script sizing now is about 368k , which would cost six centime to turn in ) . This is practically an inversion of theircurrent schemewhich saw publishers getting less than one-half of the ledger ’s sales event price , so on the open this is a very good thing .
So why would Amazon suddenly volunteer this architectural plan ? The answer ’s in the all right photographic print :
• The author or newspaper publisher - render list cost must be between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99
• This listing price must be at least 20 percent below the lowest physical list price for the physical Scripture
• The title is made available for cut-rate sale in all geographies for which the generator or newspaper publisher has rights
• The title will be included in a blanket set of characteristic in theKindle Store , such as text - to - speech communication . This listing of features will produce over time as Amazon continues to append more functionality to Kindle and the Kindle Store .
• Under this royalty pick , books must be offered at or below Mary Leontyne Price para with rivalry , include forcible Christian Bible prices . Amazon will provide pecker to automate that cognitive process , and the 70 percent royalty will be calculated off the sales cost .
So Amazon ’s willing to cut you a better lot on your record if and only if you undersell your forcible copy ( DIE BOOKS DIE ) , rent Amazon sell it with text to speech or whatever other presentation techs Amazon might come up with later on , and you conform to Amazon ’s vision of $ 10 - or - less prices for all ebooks . Larger publishers already follow these rules most of the sentence , and often talk terms their individual tidy sum behind unsympathetic doors , so this plan may be directed at belittled companies , but should be available to all .
It ’s ballsy , and a little iTunesy , and in the end , the promulgation makes a spate of sense — as does its timing , just day before Applemay or may notannounce their entry into ebookery , which could be accompanied by an ebook entrepot of its own .
Amazon ’s new revenue system will be available starting in June , alongside their current DTP curriculum . [ Amazon ]
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