Only time will tell
if MatchBook really works out, but the customer reaction has been very positive.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
And
if you look closely you'll spy my vintage Gucci
matchbook — the newest addition to my collection.
You — the publisher — decides
if, when and how long to include your eBook in the Kindle
MatchBook program.
There are no time commitments
if you decide to try the
Matchbook program.
If you bought the print version on Amazon.com, you should be able to get a free Kindle ebook of SPIRITS ABROAD via the Kindle
Matchbook service.
They are starting a new program called
Matchbook, which will allow you to bundle your printed book and ebook together, offering a discount
if both are purchased at once.
And,
if you prefer or want also to have paperbacks, scroll to the end for the Amazon links to utilize Kindle
Matchbook discounts to purchase those!
AND,
if you buy these books via Kindle
Matchbook, Vol II or Vol III — usually $ 3.99 as ebooks — are each only $ 1.99 when purchased from Amazon along with the paperback versions for Volumes II and III!
Matchbook is going to put the traditional bookselling industry on notice
if it even sees traction.
With Amazon's
Matchbook program,
if you purchase the book, you can have the e-book included, for any price - point between $ 0 to $ 2.99, depending on what the standard price of the e-book is, and which discount level the author has selected.
If your favorite book isn't available through Kindle
Matchbook, you should» t lose hope as Amazon says they will continue adding new titles to the list every day.
If the only thing you do with
MatchBook is check that box to participate and select a
MatchBook price, you probably won't get much out of the program.
Note that
if you make the
MatchBook price free,
MatchBook sales won't affect your book's paid sales rank.
An offer to buy the Kindle edition at the discounted
MatchBook price
if you already own the print edition of the same book.
If the paperback royalty plus the
MatchBook royalty amount to less than your current e-book royalty, then you might prefer to either raise your paperback list price, or not opt into the program.
If you give the customer this idea, Kindle
MatchBook helps you add value to your book.
If hardly any customers take advantage of Kindle MatchBook, or if you almost never sell books in print, it probably won't hurt your sale
If hardly any customers take advantage of Kindle
MatchBook, or
if you almost never sell books in print, it probably won't hurt your sale
if you almost never sell books in print, it probably won't hurt your sales.
So
if the customer was shopping for the Kindle edition, the customer will just buy the Kindle edition without even realizing that
MatchBook was a possibility.
If the Kindle edition offers
MatchBook, you'll see one of three things near the top of the Kindle edition page:
Users just have to look up titles on Kindle
MatchBook to see
if it's available for download.
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.
Some good news:
If you ordinarily earn a 70 % royalty rate for the e-book, you apparently receive 70 % on the promotional price through Kindle MatchBook, even if this price is 99 cents or $ 1.9
If you ordinarily earn a 70 % royalty rate for the e-book, you apparently receive 70 % on the promotional price through Kindle
MatchBook, even
if this price is 99 cents or $ 1.9
if this price is 99 cents or $ 1.99.
First there's Amazon, whose Kindle
MatchBook program lets you buy ebooks at reduced prices
if... Read more»
If it learns that major publishers are avoiding
MatchBook mostly because of this restriction it will likely adjust the percentage.
Get the Kindle edition for just $ 2.99
if you buy the paperback as part of the Amazon Kindle
Matchbook discount!
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.
Though Kindle
MatchBook will launch in the US, there is no word
if it will be heading to other markets, though considering it took six months for AutoRip to reach Europe, it will probably do the same.
If your book is eligible for 70 % royalties, then your
MatchBook royalties will match that percentage.
If your book is selling for just $ 1 or less, then you'll have to make the
MatchBook price free.
After getting a print version of your book, or
if you already have one, then you have to go to Promotional List Price and set your
MatchBook price.
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.
«But... but... but...»
If only we'd known the Amazonians» Kindle
MatchBook deal was coming, right?
Kindle
Matchbook program offers customers discounted prices for eBooks
if they buy print books from Amazon store.
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.
If you have a free promotion running, anyone who downloads the book even through
MatchBook, will get the book for free (which seems fair and logical to me).
Volume II, «This Changes My Family and My Life Forever,» and Volume III, «This Is / Is Not the Way I Want Things to Change»: each ebook is $ 1.99
if purchased WITH paperbacks, which are each $ 19.99 via Kindle
Matchbook on any Amazon.com store site world - wide.
With Kindle
MatchBook, readers who prefer the print version have a better reason to get their hands on eBook
if they have not discovered it yet.
If your dog is bigger, you can improvise with a low coffee table made wobbly by putting something like a
matchbook under a leg.