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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Amazon do not allow a book's price to be set as Free. But if they find that is is available for free elsewhere, they will mark its price as free themselves. You could try reporting it as found free elsewhere from the book's Amazon page, assuming it is still available elsewhere as free.
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They now seem to ignore price reports and randomly price 99c as free or 99c by marketplace when free elsewhere.
You can set free on Google Playstore Playbooks and Smashwords/Draft2Digital, who distribute to Kobo, Apple, Barnes&Noble and others at "free".
You also now see a different price depending on if you are logged in and which Marketplace the Kindle is registered. Many marketplaces now no longer show me any Kindle price when Logged in.
There is also the separate issue that really you should be setting price to retailer and the retailer then should pay that no matter what price they charge. The way MS store, Apple store and Google Playstore and KDP (Amazon ebooks or paper) works is illegal in many countries for "bricks and mortar" stores/retailers.
At under $100 p.a. you can have a good domain name and decent hosting with SSL (for HTTPS) and offer free ebooks like Global Grey and Standard ebooks do.