Not all e-books
sold at amazon are DRM - crippled.
In other words: book
sells at amazon for 7.99; Amazon gets 65 % Publisher gets 35 %, author gets 50 % of the 35 % of cover price.
Not exact matches
they
sell fake ones
at Halloween stores, and
amazon.
Why not set up online fulfillment through
amazon, and
sell only directly to consumers for products you believe aren't popular enough to keep stocked
at retail?
unless it is available
at staples and on
amazon — how can it
sell?
Pricing
at $ 4.99 (and remember,
Amazon decides the price, not you)
AMAZON will make $ 3.25 a sale so will need to
sell only 462 copies to make back the advance it paid out.
In fact, if you look
at the screen shot above, there's a chance the most noticeable book cover among ALL the books on that page is that big bright yellow cover along the left, which, not coincidentally is for
SELL YOUR BOOK ON
AMAZON.
so
amazon loses the top socio - demographic groups that could help
sell large amounts of ads
at higher prices when they let people opt out.
Smashwords launched their version of an associate program today and highlighted a weakness in
Amazon's generally impenetratable armor i.e.
selling Kindle edition books
at the low $ 9.99 price, often
at a loss, leaves no room for
amazon associate commissions.
This is a sign of whats to come...
Amazons motto is «
sell hardware
at the lowest price possible and make it up with content sales»
Since
amazon would be new to the tablet market it's always possible for them to
sell at a loss initially.
Anybody who wanders into Sam's Club and picks up a hardbound book in their large book section, grabs a romance title
at a supermarket, or even people buying and
selling real, physical used copies of books on
amazon itself is not counted in this.
That's why
amazon and B&N
sell those things
at a big loss.
In this case that would mean Hachette setting a wholesale price and letting
amazon sell it
at the price they want (wait a second that is what happened before Apple and Hachette et al decided to collude to increase the price — if that is what they did).
Often people don't actually have your work, even when they
sell your book on ebay, they are just taking the details from
amazon and making a product listing
at a higher price, so IF it
sells, they'll buy your book and order a copy... so it's actually free marketing for you.
All very well KIndle /
amazon selling thier books cheaper than anyone else
at the moment, Is this just a come on like banks with attractive rates for the first year?
At least this time
amazon didn't cheat us like redmi flash
sell.