The use of the 35% royalty rate is interesting. Do $.99 books of his really sell more than 6 times as much as $2.99 books (which would net a 70% royalty)? The dynamics here are interesting.
Here's the royalty information for amazon if anyone is interested:
http://forums.kindledirectpublishing...externalID=393
and
http://forums.kindledirectpublishing...externalID=453
Edit: This is actually really tricky stuff to determine. Figuring out the elasticity of the market isn't easy and you can't directly compare this guy's books to books by others (not trivially anyhow). Heck, it is a bit questionable to compare one of his ebooks to another one.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If I knew I'd enjoy, oh, 75% of published books, that would be reasonable. Since I'm only interested in 10% or so of the stuff that's commercially published, looking for the 1% of the self-released stuff that interests me isn't much more of a hardship. It also includes the chance of running across gems that would never reach a mainstream publisher but are exactly in line with my specific interests.
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I would imagine if a friend of yours highly recommended a work that was self-published, then you'd be far more likely to buy it. I think such works initially sell via marketing and people taking a chance, then, if they are good, word of mouth.