Not exact matches
Previously, KDP Select authors would
get a royalty payment if a reader made it past the 10 - per -
cent mark of their
book.
However, if you
book travel through the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal and use points to pay, you'll
get a 25 % bonus, making points worth 1.25
cents each.
You can use points from the Reserve the same ways as with the Preferred, except that you'll
get a 50 % bonus when
booking travel through Chase, making your points worth 1.5
cents each.
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When you exchange points for cash or as a statement credit, generally the best return you can
get is one
cent for each point applied towards the price of the ticket when you
booked it.
With the Sapphire Preferred and Ink Preferred you'll
get 1.25
cents / point, however with the Sapphire Reserve, you'll receive 1.5
cents / point when
booking directly through the Travel Portal.
The main reason was because it's special time with their parent (78 per
cent), but 65 per
cent also said reading together was fun, 48 per
cent said they
got to listen to
books that might have been too hard for them, 36 per
cent said they simply liked the fact they didn't have to do the reading by themselves, and 35 per
cent said they liked to hear the different voices or talk about the
books with the person doing the reading.
If a regular mass
book got to those shelves or into a ten
cent bin in the front of a store, it was because it didn't sell and the store wanted to
get ride of it.
When I listed a horror
book for free on multiple platforms I managed to
get $ 0.02
cents per click, and the worst I've seen was $ 0.4
cents per click with one of the literary titles.
I
get about $ 4 per novel sold vs. 75
cents for my Road Biking
book, which was taken out of print.
My first
book is more established so I have no problem making it 99
cents because it's
got the stars to make it a good buy for the reader.
Here's a video I did last year talking about how to
get your ebook listed for free at Barnes & Noble and Amazon (where the lowest price you can list a
book for is technically 99
cents).
At 30 - 60
cents, it's always felt (to me) that you can
get more out of giving the novel away for free (basically using it as a loss leader to encourage sales of other
books, an established and effective technique for many authors publishing series).
I started with a 99
cent book — it generated enough sales I could invest in making the
book better,
getting a better cover, taking the time to re-edit it, etc..
There's a severe shortage of streamlined pathways for self - published authors to
get their
books into libraries, with many authors resorting to simply donating copies of their
books and hoping they
get put on the shelves (as opposed to being sold in the 25 -
cent paperback sale).
If the
book you want is too expensive, borrow it from a library or borrow the print copy from a friend or even
get a print copy from a site like
book crossing or here's an idea
get a
book that's 99
cents or 3.99 or something you can afford that» is the same genre and type of read as the
book you want — especially if the cheaper one has even better reviews.
A lot of them also bought the
book, even though they
got it for free because I put it up at 99
cents to start with.
If your
book is fewer than 50 pages, then you will
get 99
cents per month and if you «stuff» a
book with material that is not real, genuine, writing in order to meet the page requirement, then you are banned from Amazon.
The rare exception is if the
book itself has a compelling title and I'm being told I can
get it for 99
cents today... i.e. «Every social media problem solved in 100 Quick Tips, free today only...»
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Someone mentioned
getting 6
cents each for a
book that sold 160,000 copies.
Her children's paperback sold 160,000 copies, listed at $ 3.99, was sold at a discount to schools as part of their Road to Reading programs for 50 % off so she
got about 6
cents per
book.
Occasionally you can
get a good
book as a gift, passed along from a friend, or even at a random
book swap — or the library — and not have to pay a
cent.
That means a 200 - page novel will net the author eight
cents if a reader finishes the whole thing; even further, an author will only
get paid the first time the reader enjoys the
book.
That writer would
get the 56
cents if Amazon sells the
book at $ 27.95 or if Amazon sells the
book at $ 13.37.
I don't personally like that price — not much sense having a pulse sale on a 99
cent book — but it
got people looking at it who might have passed me by otherwise.
I think it works to
get you into the system to
get eyes on your
book... Email me what you did, if you want and I'll give my two
cents?
Shortly after this amazing display of cluelessness, Amazon
got its irony detection system back online and announced that a) it was refunding the cost of the
books (a whopping 99
cents apiece) to Kindle owners who mistakenly thought they owned the
books they just bought; and b) it wouldn't pull this stunt again.
It is like the 99
book collection sales, I rarely buy a
book or series of
books for more than 99
cents because I am
getting used to that price point.
You may
get a $ 10,000 dollar advance given in two payments (for example, $ 5,000 upon signing and $ 5,000 upon completion), but you will not see a
cent more from your
book until it sells enough copies for your percentage of the royalties to surpass $ 10,000.
I only charge 99
cents for it so I only
get 33
cents per copy... but I have had months of $ 100.00 just from that
book alone.
It's not as good a reading experience as on the Kindle, but since I can
get 99
cent books for 99
cents, and not 3.74 dollars which is what Amazon charges for them, then that's a saving worth making.
I've downloaded the Barnes and Noble Nook app as another way of
getting free and 99
cents books for the proper price.
So for a Kindle Countdown, instead of
getting 35
cents on a dollar
book, you're
getting closer to 70
cents minus delivery charges, which depends on the size of your file.
If more people understood everything that it takes to
get a
book out into the world, there would be alot less bitching about having to spend anything over 99
cents for one.
Finally I can
get 99
cent books for 99
cents, and not $ 3.44.
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book for free, or at the discounted 99
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An author selling a
book at $ 3 will be
getting over $ 2 per sale while an author selling an ebook for $ 1 will be
getting 35
cents.
If you're lucky, you might
get 10
cents for them at a garage sale or a quarter from a used
book store.
Why would someone look for my
book at 99
cents in a Kindle Countdown list on Amazon when they can
get the
book for free as part of KU?
Some authors will have a $ 0.99
cent book that's 400 pages and
get $ 2.50 per borrow.
Pre-orderers will have already received their copies, but for those who prefer to wait until a
book is live (I'm totally like this) you can still
get it at the promotional price of 99
cents.
This is a Smashwords
book and does require a code to
get the
book for 99
cents.
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My only concern is that if this change is being made at the demand of publishers, it probably won't be long until they start demanding that
books priced at 99
cents get taken off, too.
If you're dead set on never spending a
cent on
book marketing, you'll
get less value from this than someone who embraces the concept that you have to spend money to make money.
You have to read ten 99 -
cent books to
get your $ 9.99's worth for the month, but if you read ten $ 5.99
books, that's a $ 60 value.
We've been
getting great feedback from our readers for a while now about how you use our website to find category - sorted listings of free, quality 99 -
cent, and Kindle Owners Lending Library - eligible books in the Kindle Store: SEARCH AND SORT FREE KINDLE BOOKS BY CATEGORY SEARCH AND SORT QUALITY 99 - CENT KINDLE BOOKS BY CATEGORY (Includes only -LSB-
cent, and Kindle Owners Lending Library - eligible
books in the Kindle Store: SEARCH AND SORT FREE KINDLE BOOKS BY CATEGORY SEARCH AND SORT QUALITY 99 - CENT KINDLE BOOKS BY CATEGORY (Includes only -LSB
books in the Kindle Store: SEARCH AND SORT FREE KINDLE
BOOKS BY CATEGORY SEARCH AND SORT QUALITY 99 - CENT KINDLE BOOKS BY CATEGORY (Includes only -LSB
BOOKS BY CATEGORY SEARCH AND SORT QUALITY 99 -
CENT KINDLE BOOKS BY CATEGORY (Includes only -LSB-
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The conditions that make this platform an attractive alternative to KDP include: EPUB upload and document converstion, 70 % royalties of the sale price (meaning that if a
book is sold for 2.49 euros, the author
gets 1.46 euros with Tolino, but only 73
Cents if selling with Amazon) and distribution via all Tolino bookselling partners, making each title available in over a 1,000 online bookshops.
I hope to
get an agent for my next
book and to publish traditionally, but if I can't interest an agent in my next
book, I'll most likely self - publish it for 99
cents on Amazon Kindle.