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Originally Posted by SamL
For anyone who isn't familiar, right now if you sell an ebook on Amazon for between $.01 and $9.99, Amazon takes a 30% fee, and you keep 70%. But if your ebook is priced over $9.99, you get 30% and Amazon takes 70%.
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Just a minor correction...
At least for self-publishers, the 70% royalty only applies if the ebook is priced from $2.99 to $9.99 and the sale is to a customer in the United States, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Great Britain, Guernsey, Germany, Isle of Man, Jersey, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, or Switzerland. Sales to other countries and ebooks priced less than $2.99 earn the author only 35%. So, if an author sells a book for 99 cents, his royalty is 35 cents.
For the 70% royalty, the author/publisher is also responsible for "delivery cost," and this is subtracted from the list price before the royalty is calculated. The delivery cost generally isn't much, but it is based on file size. Feature-rich books or ones with lots of graphics will have larger file sizes, so delivery cost will be higher for those.