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Top100EbooksRank · 06-14-2012, 09:26 AM

The delivery fee is (in the US) charged per MB at

Amazon.com: $0.15/MB
Amazon.co.uk: £0.10/MB
Amazon.de: €0.12/MB
Amazon.fr: €0.12/MB
Amazon.es: €0.12/MBAmazon.it: €0.12/MB

The book was at 18MB. The author has cut that down to

2612 KB

So the new delivery fee is 2.6 MB x $0.15 = $0.39

I guess he's a newbie at self-publishing and didn't read the TOS carefully. Now that he knows better, he wisely cutting down from 18MB to 2.6MB. This will gain him a lot of money.

The thread titles should be:

Amazon's Terms Not Such a Great Deal for Self Pubbers

Who Put out a 18MB File

Now wised up

Cut it down to 2612 KB

And gained a $2.19 per Kindle Sales

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by not doing this beforehand because he didn't read the TOS, he lost $2.19 per ebook sold. I guess better late than never. At least he got a lot of publicity out of this (50,000+ hits according to his other post).

06-14-2012, 09:26 AM	#11
Top100EbooksRank Banned Posts: 304 Karma: 6102528 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: Kindle	The delivery fee is (in the US) charged per MB at Amazon.com: $0.15/MB Amazon.co.uk: £0.10/MB Amazon.de: €0.12/MB Amazon.fr: €0.12/MB Amazon.es: €0.12/MBAmazon.it: €0.12/MB The book was at 18MB. The author has cut that down to 2612 KB So the new delivery fee is 2.6 MB x $0.15 = $0.39 I guess he's a newbie at self-publishing and didn't read the TOS carefully. Now that he knows better, he wisely cutting down from 18MB to 2.6MB. This will gain him a lot of money. The thread titles should be: Amazon's Terms Not Such a Great Deal for Self Pubbers Who Put out a 18MB File Now wised up Cut it down to 2612 KB And gained a $2.19 per Kindle Sales ----- by not doing this beforehand because he didn't read the TOS, he lost $2.19 per ebook sold. I guess better late than never. At least he got a lot of publicity out of this (50,000+ hits according to his other post). Last edited by Top100EbooksRank; 06-14-2012 at 09:32 AM.