For example, if you are earning a 35 % royalty for sales of your digital book at its regular Digital List Price, you will earn a 35 % royalty on Kindle
MatchBook sales calculated at the Promotional List Price.
If I was informed correctly, 99 cent, $ 1.99, and $ 2.99
MatchBook sales will improve your Kindle sales rank, whereas free
MatchBook sales will instead count toward your free sales rank.
It doesn't look like the month - to - date sales report will help you see how many
MatchBook sales you have, but you should be able to see it in the six - week report.
Note that if you make the MatchBook price free,
MatchBook sales won't affect your book's paid sales rank.
Not exact matches
And through programs such as Kindle
Matchbook, it could encourage easy add - on
sales to buyers who want both print and electronic editions, with minimal investment for Amazon.
Again, these won't be eligible for
MatchBook, but can help inspire more paperback
sales (even on Amazon, through the marketing effect of having more paperback books out there).
A cool thing about
MatchBook for authors is that if you ordinarily earn the 70 % royalty rate on a
sale, you still earn 70 % if the
MatchBook price is below $ 2.99.
It will be interesting to see how these two programs, Kindle
Matchbook and BitLit, play out, and whether the large publishing houses decide that half a loaf is better than none when it comes to potential ebook
sales.
If hardly any customers take advantage of Kindle
MatchBook, or if you almost never sell books in print, it probably won't hurt your
sales.
Here's why it's important: If the
MatchBook freebies would improve your Kindle
sales rank, that would serve as an incentive to offer print customers a free Kindle edition.
All of them were on
sale, except The Traitor Baru Cormorant, which I got at the Kindle
Matchbook price because we bought a hardcover copy for Robin.
Don't forget to do the
MatchBook combo for both print and «e»
sales.
Amazon's new
MatchBook feature allows you to make some extra
sales by bundling both your print and digital book as one
sale.
While it's a no - brainer to apply to
MatchBook since you can make some easy
sales, many authors are wondering if this is a viable feature that will make them money.
MatchBook fixes this problem by allowing authors and publishers to bundle their print and digital books as one
sale.
Note that if your Digital Book is eligible for the 70 % royalty option, your Digital Book will earn 70 % on each
sale of the Digital Book at a Promotional List Price set under the Kindle
MatchBook program or the Kindle Countdown Deals program regardless of whether the Promotional List Price is within the maximum and minimum list price requirements for the 70 % royalty option.