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Amazon Drops Macmillan
Another shot fired in the eBook price war! Amazon drops Macmillan's listings. The Bits Blog of NYTimes.com Technology section rounds up rumors over why Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement.
In the short, Brad Stone wrote, "Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of electronic books from $9.99 to around $15." And Macmillan is one of the publishers signed up to provide iBooks for Apple's new iPad, at prices not limited to Amazon's top of $9.99 (remember my post on "Ten Buck Books"?).
I guess this answers a couple of the questions raised in Wednesday's discussion about eBooks (okay, so Apple will call them iBooks) and Amazon's response is to drop Macmillan's book stock.
More questions: Will Amazon follow suit with the other iBook publishers? Is this related only to the Ten Buck Book war? What effects will it have on self-publishers, both independents and for the Kindle? "The Ultimate Cheapskate," Jeff Yeager
, pictured right, provides one traditionally published author's response.
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In the short, Brad Stone wrote, "Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of electronic books from $9.99 to around $15." And Macmillan is one of the publishers signed up to provide iBooks for Apple's new iPad, at prices not limited to Amazon's top of $9.99 (remember my post on "Ten Buck Books"?).
I guess this answers a couple of the questions raised in Wednesday's discussion about eBooks (okay, so Apple will call them iBooks) and Amazon's response is to drop Macmillan's book stock.
More questions: Will Amazon follow suit with the other iBook publishers? Is this related only to the Ten Buck Book war? What effects will it have on self-publishers, both independents and for the Kindle? "The Ultimate Cheapskate," Jeff Yeager, pictured right, provides one traditionally published author's response.
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posted by Georganna Hancock M.S. | 8:52 AM
3 Comments:
Actually, Geo, I'm poorer from print sales than eBook sales, since my royalties on eBook is a whopping 25% (as opposed to 8% on trade paperback). Regardless, as you can see from the photo, there's still nothin' but lint in my pockets.
Interesting. You should be receiving 30% of the sale of your Kindle edition at $9.32. Not a much better price than the paperback at $10.36. I am referring to the listings at Amazon, for your first book, of course.
Is an eBook edition available elsewhere? Maybe from the publisher? (I'm too lazy to look it up myself, so I continue using you.)
This begins to sound like support for J.A. Konrath's position about better income from eBooks than traditionally published tree books, right? Or am I mixing fruits, here. Comparing self-published eBooks to traditional publisher's/Amazon's eBooks?
I was wrong! The royalty on Kindle pubs is 35% now, rising to 70% in June, but that is for self-published material. Perhaps it does not apply to traditional publishers' placements. And, of course, they must take their cuts, as well as the agent ... do you receive anything?
Also, Kindle supplied blogs cannot be read with the Kindle for the PC program. Another my bad.
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