Re:Is Amazon’s Kindle Destroying the Publishing Industry?
by acangiano on Saturday May 28, 2011 @10:20AM
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Fun fact: Authors get 35%, not 70%, on any sales outside selected countries like the US and UK. Also, if you set the price above $9.99, you are getting 35% only in any country. This may be OK for a novel, but it rarely works for technical authors. And 35% royalty on a technical book you self-publish is absurd.
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Re:Is Amazon’s Kindle Destroying the Publishing Industry?
by runevault on Saturday May 28, 2011 @02:21PM
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Yeah the ceiling sort of irks me. I kind of wish they'd have another point at which 70% picked up again that isn't something fiction publishing would risk going for (at least very often) but would make sense for valuable non-fiction books such as those covering programming topics, maybe $35 or $40 bucks.