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Originally Posted by ApK
Note KDP royalties are only 35% to the author/publisher if the price is below a certain point. |
I know.
Also for certain undeveloped/expensive foreign markets. They discourage very low prices as much as they discourage very high prices. Their recent beta release of a pricing assistant tool for KDP (still needs work, I hear) recommends price hikes as often as drops.
Oh, and the 35% (of gross) author royalty they propose?
Those is their baseline for Amazon Publishing titles, the ones boycotted by B&M retailers yet still turning in tidy returns for the authors.
Whatever one may think of the fairness of their terms and practices, they are pretty consistent. They want to maximize their take and that requires maximizing income for the upstream players; publisher and author. Their KDP and small press suppliers for the most part tend to listen but the BPHs have other things in mind.