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Originally Posted by Just4kix
Sometimes Amazon will discount the books, but the author will still receive 'royalties' on the original price.
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The usual reason for Amazon to discount is to match a lower price found on another online retail bookstore. You only get royalties on the original list price if you selected 35% rather than 70% royalty rate (if you selected 70%, you'll only get royalties on the discounted price), and even then not always - if it happens a lot, the author risks Amazon pulling their book, on the basis that the author is not adhering to their side of the contract, where they agreed not to sell the book elsewhere at a cheaper price than on Amazon.
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Originally Posted by Just4kix
There was even a case of Amazon offering a book for free and it was downloaded 1000's of times, but the author still got his royalties. (We all want to know how we can get them to do it for our books!)  |
Are you sure about that? I understood that the authors this happened to didn't get any royalties for any of those sales, but I might be wrong on that. I do know that several of the books were pulled from Amazon's listings when Amazon spotted what was happening, then reinstated a few days later. It only happened because these authors were offering their books free on Smashwords, and Amazon's automatic price checker found that and set a matching price in Amazon for a few days until someone at Amazon spotted it.