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        <title>Re: New 70% Royalty option coming!  This is exciting!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I'm very anxious to hear more about this as well.  I'm working with a client to upload to Kindle -- which is a pain because I'm having to reformat a PDF document to do so -- AND it's a foreign publisher.  Maybe that's why this publisher had been dragging their feet all along.

Surely they will announce something else soon, solidifying the 70% royalty arrangement opt-in?

Glad to know this community area is so active.  I shall be here quite often.  :)

Best wishes to everyone!

OneVoiceRising]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[Cub, I've wondered about the silence about this new royalty deal.  I've tried not to allow myself to think of it as a done deal but you never know.  I must say that after making it so clear and public, if Amazon decided not to go through with it, in my book their reputation would be a bit sullied.]]></description>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure that it is indeed retroactive, though there may be an opt-in requirement.

It's notable however that nothing has been said by Amazon or DTP Guy about this 70 (69, 68, whatever) percent split in recent months. It seems to have been an effort to keep mainstream publishers in the $9.99 price point, and that has meanwhile been smashed by Macmillan.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:18:31 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <title>Re: New 70% Royalty option coming!  This is exciting!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Does anyone know yet if the 70% Royalty option will be available to existing accounts?  I am getting ready to publish a book with Amazon's DTP for the first time, and one reason I was so attracted to Amazon was the 70% royalties.  If you aren't able to change though, maybe I should hold off until the end of June to publish my book?
Thanks for your input!]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:49:35 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <title>Re: New 70% Royalty option coming!  This is exciting!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the Amazon Associate program, you can opt for the default payment program of 4 percent or for a 'tiered' program that starts with 4 percent, soon goes up to 6 percent, and so on until you are earning a maximum (and unlikely) 15 percent. Why would anyone opt for the 'classic' program? Because they're not thinking, or perhaps because they set up their websites years ago and are content to let the occasional payment roll in. So Amazon pays them less than what active Associates are earning.

The same no-brainer would seem to apply to the new royalty fee for DTP e-books. Obviously anyone in his or her right mind would take 70 percent (or 66 percent, whatever the net amount turns out to be) over 35 percent. Perhaps there are some folks who have uploaded e-books so huge that the expense of delivering it by Whispernet would take a significant chunk of that 70 percent. Well, that will have the effect of encouraging those folks to streamline their offerings a bit.

And, as you suggest, will encourage publishers to get away from the 99 cent / $1.99 pricing model into something more profitable for Amazon. 

It's interesting to me that Amazon reckons there is a cost to fulfilling an e-book order. That being the case, one can see why they don't permit us to give our books away on the Amazon store]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:26:53 +0000</pubDate>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[I just wish they were doing it now. I have had a beautiful month and would love to double my royalties.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:10:30 +0000</pubDate>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[This is [i]great [/i]news!  The only part I need clarified is this:

[i]"This new option will be in addition to and will not replace the existing DTP standard royalty option."
[/i]

Since both royalty percentages are described as an "option," I assume that means we'll be choosing one or the other (70% or 35%) for each work uploaded?  Since there are writers out there who have been charging less than the minimum $2.99 required price to qualify for the 70% option, maybe this is a move to try and shift pricing practices upward a bit.  I know I've seen many Kindle books listed at $.99, which I believe is the lowest Amazon allows.  

In any case it certainly seems like a grand idea to me.  I welcome the chance to try it.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:18:31 +0000</pubDate>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[Cub, I'm glad to see your take on this.  I'm not savvy enough to interpret the pros/cons myself so I look for posters from whom I have gleaned good comments in the past.  I just write.....]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:00:12 +0000</pubDate>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[Lots of good stuff above! (And don't worry about the multiple postings. That's caught all of us from time to time.)

Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal this morning (Jan 21, page B2) about 
Amazon's new ploy. Suggests that the purpose is to entice publishers (not so much us independent author-publishers) into the program by giving them a bigger share of the pie. That would explain the targeted price range: $2.99-$9.99. 

I have several short documents (3000-15,000 words) in Kindle editions priced at 99 cents, $1.49, and $2.49. You better believe I am assessing how they can be combined and/or enriched to justify a $2.99 price. 

Here's the WSJ story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704320104575014653299582416.html

And here's a somewhat related story about Amazon rolling out a version of Apple's App Store for the Kindle: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704320104575016261810857940.html]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:18:59 +0000</pubDate>

        

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            <description><![CDATA[> At launch, the 70 percent royalty option will only be available for
> books sold in the United States. 

What about foreign publishers?]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:24:46 +0000</pubDate>

        

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