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Originally Posted by griffonwing
Even so, the profit margins to Amazon are unbelievable. It literally turns my stomach how a company can take a work that you've worked months, possibly years on, and only give you 1/3 of the money made.
Now, for an actually p-BOOK, with editing, printing costs, paper costs, storage, shipping etc, then yeah, a heavily reduced percentage of the profits I can see.
But here, where YOU'VE done the writing, YOU'VE done the editing,
YOU'VE done the formatting, YOU'VE done everything and all Amazon is doing is taking your COMPLETED book file and just hosting it in their store, for that they take 2/3 of the profits.
It makes me sick. Literally.
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Overreact much?
It's a service. Nobody has to use it.
Also Amazon is dealing with the customer and paying the credit card processing/whispernet/hosting fees.
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Originally Posted by daffy4u
What percentage would they get going through a publisher? More or less?
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Way less according to this article
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Writing-B...rofit-book.htm
Of course that's not counting an advance if there was one.
-edit Wikianswers says it's 16%
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_d..._make_per_book
- edit 2 A thread on Askville says it's more around 10%
http://askville.amazon.com/profit-ma...uestId=4387206