Amazon announces new royalty options for ebooks
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From Smart Money comes news that Amazon has announced a new royalty option offering greater incentive to authors and publishers to keep e-books pricing low.
The new plan allows authors and publishers who meet certain criteria to receive 70% of the book’s list price as royalty, net of delivery costs, which average about 6 cents per book. For an $8.99 book that meets the new plan’s criteria, the author would receive $6.25 with the new option as opposed to $3.15 with the standard option, the company said.
For authors to choose the new plan, the book must have a list price between $2.99 and $9.99; the list price must be at least 20% below the lowest physical list price for the book; the book must be made available for sale in all geographies in which the author or publisher has rights; the title will be included in a set of Kindle features, such as text-to-speech; and books must be “offered at or below price parity with competition, including physical book prices.”
With the impending paradigm shifting, jaw-dropping, game changing iPad/slate/tablet/thingy to be announced from Apple next week, and the growing interest in e-book readers, I thought this was an interesting piece of news.
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