For those not familiar with KDP, the red graph
shows paid ebook sales, and the blue shows the number of pages of my ebook read each day by subscribers to Kindle Unlimited (We get paid around half a cent per page read)
Not exact matches
The
ebook royalties
shown in the chart below are the percentage
paid to the publisher — so if you are self - publishing that means you.
Because we need to
show people that good quality content is worth
paying for, I would be against free, advert - based editions, which would devalue and cheapen
ebooks.
The fact that Amazon surcharges Poles for Kindle
ebooks and
shows no interest whatsoever in catering for the central and east European reader, leaves the door wide open for publishers to make titles available in multiple formats to be read on Amazon devices without
paying another cent to Amazon.
And recent research
shows that consumers are willing to
pay a reasonable price for
eBooks.
According to the new 80 - 20 rule (my name for it), Amazon affiliates will be penalized in any month that one, their affiliate ID
shows up on more than 20 thousand free Kindle
ebook purchases, and two, the total number of
paid Kindle
ebooks account for less than one in five purchases.
Yet Amazon insists it makes almost no money and they refuse to
show how much they are
paying authors from this huge increase in Amazon sales that can be tied to one thing, KINDLE
EBOOK SALES.
In addition to buying reviews, Locke also
paid the reviewers to download his.99
ebooks so that the reviews
showed up on Amazon as «verified purchases.»
We have to
pay more for
ebooks than we did when Amazon was running the
show.
Among other things, this
shows publishers that you're meticulously recording, and
paying for, every
ebook downloaded.
It's pretty common to find authors that are willing to give digital copies of their
ebooks away for free, but it
shows a whole different level of selflessness and commitment to your readers for an author to give away physical versions of their books, especially if they are
paying for shipping.
Turns out, that even if all the prize winners «redeem» their
ebooks (and the bulk order DOES
show up on your Sales Dashboard), they STILL DO N'T COUNT toward sales ranking (either
paid OR free).
It
shows how much people are willing to
pay for a good
ebook reader with tablet functionality.
Since then I have been attempting to get KDP CS to
show me ONE INSTANCE where an
ebook in a giveaway I ran received sales ranking credit for either the
PAID or the FREE bestseller lists.
A massive new survey by AuthorEarnings
shows that in two years, the market share of
paid unit sales between indie and Big 5
ebooks has more than reversed.
For daily unit sales, the survey
shows that at least a third of all
paid ebook unit sales on Amazon.com are indie self - published
ebooks but the real number is almost certainly several percent higher.