![]() It’s quite obvious that Amazon is incentivizing publishers to price their kindle eBooks in the range of $2.99-$9.99. They are $0.15/MB for the US, £0.10/MB for the UK, and €0,12/MB for the European marketplaces. From $2.99 – $9.99 the royalty rate is 70%.Īlso, another element to keep in mind is the delivery costs which get subtracted from your total royalty, when you opt for 70% royalty. The basic royalty structure for Kindle eBooks is quite simple. How Amazon Calculates Royalties for Kindle eBooks If your book happens to be, for example, 80 pages long, you can still add 28 pages without increasing the printing cost.įor colored ink, the printing cost stays the same until 42 pages. ![]() This means that your printing costs (and royalty) will be the same when your book is 24 pages long or 108 pages. Note that for black and white ink books, the printing cost stays the same until 108 pages. You can learn more about royalty and printing cost calculations on Amazon KDP’s website here. The office of Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut attorney general, says that the companies could be "potentially depriving consumers of competitive prices" and that the burgeoning nature of the market "warranting prompt review of the potential anti-consumer impacts.How Amazon KDP Calculates Printing Cost & Royaltiesįixed cost + (page count * per page cost) Last month, the company revealed that it sold 143 Kindle ebooks for every 100 hardbacks sold in the previous three months in the US, although no figures were released about the relative proportion of paperbacks sold in this time.Īmazon and Apple face investigations into their ebook retailing. ![]() Though Amazon rarely releases definitive figures on Kindle sales, the company says the original device has sold "millions" – it has been the bestselling item on for two years running. Greg Greeley, vice president of European retail at Amazon, said: "The opening of the UK Kindle Store allows customers to buy content in pounds sterling and offers a great shopping experience including UK customer reviews, recommendations, bestseller lists and customer service." Previously, UK Kindle owners had to get their device shipped from the US, with subsequent book purchases retailed in dollars. The Wi-Fi model costs £109 in the UK, while the model supporting both Wi-Fi and 3G will retail at £149 – both around £25 more than the US retail price. Many publishers now realise the need to follow the direction of the market.Īmazon's new Kindle devices are lighter, faster and smaller than the previous generation. In the US, digital books account for 6% of consumer sales. "The Kindle Store offers the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read at low prices," said Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle content at Amazon. Larsson's novel The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is currently second in the Kindle store's bestsellers list and available for £2.70 to UK buyers. One of the new bookstore's featured authors, the late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, last week became the first author to sell more than 1m ebooks through Amazon. More than 80 of the 100 Nielsen UK bestsellers are available to download from the new UK store, retailing at relatively low prices. In the US, Amazon has slashed the price of its Kindle device to compete with the iPad, which uses the iBook store to sell ebooks. The company is looking to pick up consumers who cannot afford Apple's iPad.
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