Sunday, December 12, 2010

Publishing News: Amazon gives larger share of revenue on ebooks

News: Ebooks can now make more money for Publishers!
 
There are some qualifiers to this edict:
  • Customers should be able to read the title on all Kindle devices and applications.
  • Customers can read the title in all geographies for which the publisher has rights.
If your ebook falls under these rules (amongst others), then up to 70% of the income now goes to the publisher.
While ebook growth in sales has been phenomenal (the report stated 180% for the year) the total market share works out to $120 Million, Q3 2010 (IDPF Website).
This is still just under 10% for a Publisher, but the profit per ebook going up will bring some additional focus on this channel for sales and promotions.
(More on that later)
Read on:
http://bookpublishingnews.blogspot.com/2010/11/amazon-announces-70-percent-revenue.html
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3 comments:

  1. Interesting. How does this compare to paper books. I don't know how much the author gets from those.

    In the UK we have to pay tax on ebooks, but not on paper books. I find that very strange too.

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  2. Wow, no tax on paper books???? I'm so jealous right now.

    The reason probably is that ebooks are 'electronic media' (like DVDs) and so get taxed under that bracket.

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  3. Hmm, this is really interesting, I might have to go read the article. I don't have an ereader yet, do yoU?

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