Now there is a tool for this, they can earn 70 % instead of 35 %
royalties during their promotions, and all customers will see the discount at Amazon, even if they hadn't heard about the author's promotion.
Not exact matches
If your primary goal
during a
promotion is to maximize
royalty revenue for you, the author or publisher, then you'll be interested to hear that $ 3.99 has replaced $ 4.99 as the best performing price point for author earnings since we looked at this back in 2015.
Note: No
royalty will be paid to authors on copies sold
during the days when the book is under
promotions.
During that 5 - day
promotion period, I realized a handful of sales and
royalties, at lower prices than retail, of course.
Now, what's worth noting is this: 707 copies of the book were also downloaded on Kindle in 5 days
during a free
promotion I did through the KDP Select program, which was fantastic for exposure but obviously did not yield any
royalties.
KDP doesn't show you what your
royalty would be
during the
promotion.
Note that you can't change the
royalty plan
during the
promotion or for fewer than 24 hours prior to the
promotion.