We've been listening to you idiots shout your insane bullshit for decades now. We need a fucking break, so do us all a favor and shut the fuck up already. You're obviously too stupid to ever say anything useful or interesting.
1. You can publish the same book at three different price points. This would just constitute three separate but identical submissions. Amazon don't like duplicate content in their catalog though, so they'll probably remove the duplicates and notify you in fairly vague terms to let you know. This may not happen right away, since their process for identifying such duplicate content isn't immediate, or apparently all that automatic, but on a long enough time line it will happen.
2. Amazon certainly don't have a tendency to not accept your book if it's available elsewhere for a lower price. What they will do is price match a lower price on a competitor's site. This generally means a major eBook retailer like B&N, Kobo, Apple, etc., but may include an author or publisher site with direct sales. If you make your book available elsewhere at a higher price they don't seem to care at all. And why should they when they've got the lowest price on Kindle?
With the 35% option you will receive 35% of list price, even when Amazon price match, unless that price match is to $0.00. With the 70% royalty option you receive 70% of the sale price, rather than list price, when the book is sold to customers in their 70% regions. Otherwise you get 35% of sale price for those books.
Whether or not the book is available elsewhere, and whether or not that price is higher or lower than at Amazon, does not factor into your royalty rate. The only impact it would have is if they price match another retailer, which could lower your sale price to ensure that Amazon's price is not being undercut by a competitor.
I imagine the Amazon thing was to get it up on Amazon, for exposure. Multiple prices since he doesn't have the ability to put a Paypal link up on Amazon.
This can actually cause problems since Amazon don't like duplicate content in their store. They'll very likely remove duplicates if it comes to their attention, without much (if any) consideration to which duplicates they would be removing. It also splits up reviews and sales rank, which isn't going to do much for helping your exposure.
There's also not much point in having a $25 eBook on Kindle. With only the 35% royalty option available at this price point you're looking at less than $2 more in royalties over selling at $9.99, while asking the customer to pay an extra 15 bucks.
Getting the book on Amazon for exposure is a good idea, but selling the same book at multiple price points doesn't really make sense. If it were my book I'd probably sell on Amazon at $9.99 and then offer other options on my website, since I don't think it's very likely that they'll price match a lower price offered direct from the author. If such a price match did occur that strategy would then need to be re-evaluated.
Are you fucking stupid? It's not a back light at all, it's a front light. The new Kindle Paperwhite uses a layer on top of the eInk screen to distribute light from side-mounted LEDs across the display. This is very similar to the NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight that has been on the market for months. It's also mentioned in the very first sentence of both TFA and TFS (emphasis added):
"Amazon used a Sept. 6 event in California to debut a range of products, including a frontlit Kindle e-reader with a higher-resolution screen, an updated Kindle Fire, and the new Kindle Fire HD in two screen sizes."
This is exactly why my kids don't even know about iPad, Kindle, or any other sort of electronic device. They're like Amish, only instead of finding ways to cheat and use electricity they clean my bathroom and polish the stainless.
Sure. Just do it yourself on the evenings and weekends without paying yourself a salary. It'll be extra slow if "you" are a manager without any experience developing anything.
There are very few black swimmers (I hear it's because the melanin makes them denser and thus slower through the water) So while running might be dominated by blacks due to genetic advantages, swimming appears to be dominated by Asians and Caucasians because of their genetic advantages. So that evens out.
Congratulations, you're not only a complete idiot but also a huge racist. Not that much of an accomplishment, obviously, as it is quite the common pairing, but it's likely the most you'll ever do to distinguish yourself in the world.
Battlefield 3 uses the Frostbite 2 engine. Of course EA is now using that for a huge number of their games, so that's got to keep the price per game down a lot, but it's still a far cry from just a "small licensing fee."
I would think that a professional game developer attempting to sound authoritative on the subject would already know this (or at least be able to take the 10 seconds to look it up) without having to guess.
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I think we can all agree that you're an idiot.
We've been listening to you idiots shout your insane bullshit for decades now. We need a fucking break, so do us all a favor and shut the fuck up already. You're obviously too stupid to ever say anything useful or interesting.
1. You can publish the same book at three different price points. This would just constitute three separate but identical submissions. Amazon don't like duplicate content in their catalog though, so they'll probably remove the duplicates and notify you in fairly vague terms to let you know. This may not happen right away, since their process for identifying such duplicate content isn't immediate, or apparently all that automatic, but on a long enough time line it will happen.
2. Amazon certainly don't have a tendency to not accept your book if it's available elsewhere for a lower price. What they will do is price match a lower price on a competitor's site. This generally means a major eBook retailer like B&N, Kobo, Apple, etc., but may include an author or publisher site with direct sales. If you make your book available elsewhere at a higher price they don't seem to care at all. And why should they when they've got the lowest price on Kindle?
With the 35% option you will receive 35% of list price, even when Amazon price match, unless that price match is to $0.00. With the 70% royalty option you receive 70% of the sale price, rather than list price, when the book is sold to customers in their 70% regions. Otherwise you get 35% of sale price for those books.
Whether or not the book is available elsewhere, and whether or not that price is higher or lower than at Amazon, does not factor into your royalty rate. The only impact it would have is if they price match another retailer, which could lower your sale price to ensure that Amazon's price is not being undercut by a competitor.
This is all explained (to some degree of clarity) on their Sales & Royalties FAQ page: https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A30F3VI2TH1FR8
I imagine the Amazon thing was to get it up on Amazon, for exposure. Multiple prices since he doesn't have the ability to put a Paypal link up on Amazon.
This can actually cause problems since Amazon don't like duplicate content in their store. They'll very likely remove duplicates if it comes to their attention, without much (if any) consideration to which duplicates they would be removing. It also splits up reviews and sales rank, which isn't going to do much for helping your exposure.
There's also not much point in having a $25 eBook on Kindle. With only the 35% royalty option available at this price point you're looking at less than $2 more in royalties over selling at $9.99, while asking the customer to pay an extra 15 bucks.
Getting the book on Amazon for exposure is a good idea, but selling the same book at multiple price points doesn't really make sense. If it were my book I'd probably sell on Amazon at $9.99 and then offer other options on my website, since I don't think it's very likely that they'll price match a lower price offered direct from the author. If such a price match did occur that strategy would then need to be re-evaluated.
It's even uglier than the original iPhone.
Example: If Linus feels that all women should be raped, that would not make anybody look good.
If Linus felt that all women should be raped he'd probably be backing Romney for president instead of calling him a moron.
Are you fucking stupid? It's not a back light at all, it's a front light. The new Kindle Paperwhite uses a layer on top of the eInk screen to distribute light from side-mounted LEDs across the display. This is very similar to the NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight that has been on the market for months. It's also mentioned in the very first sentence of both TFA and TFS (emphasis added):
"Amazon used a Sept. 6 event in California to debut a range of products, including a frontlit Kindle e-reader with a higher-resolution screen, an updated Kindle Fire, and the new Kindle Fire HD in two screen sizes."
Or you could have simply read about it on Amazon: http://amzn.to/UwTOMk.
This is exactly why my kids don't even know about iPad, Kindle, or any other sort of electronic device. They're like Amish, only instead of finding ways to cheat and use electricity they clean my bathroom and polish the stainless.
Sure. Just do it yourself on the evenings and weekends without paying yourself a salary. It'll be extra slow if "you" are a manager without any experience developing anything.
There are very few black swimmers (I hear it's because the melanin makes them denser and thus slower through the water) So while running might be dominated by blacks due to genetic advantages, swimming appears to be dominated by Asians and Caucasians because of their genetic advantages. So that evens out.
Congratulations, you're not only a complete idiot but also a huge racist. Not that much of an accomplishment, obviously, as it is quite the common pairing, but it's likely the most you'll ever do to distinguish yourself in the world.
Crawl out from under that rock, the Olympics haven't been about amateur athletes in a long time.
I could go for an old fashioned right about now.
It's not his genetic material, it's the McNuggets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Isn't the burden of having all that money and the guilt over how it was acquired really punishment enough?
Battlefield 3 uses the Frostbite 2 engine. Of course EA is now using that for a huge number of their games, so that's got to keep the price per game down a lot, but it's still a far cry from just a "small licensing fee."
I would think that a professional game developer attempting to sound authoritative on the subject would already know this (or at least be able to take the 10 seconds to look it up) without having to guess.
Team Fortress 2; the most fun you can have on your PC that isn't pr0n!
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This should not be surprising when you consider how excited they are to make $11/hour working at one of those Apple stores.
Uh, what? Most e-book formats are just a zipped HTML file which support a limited subset of HTML. And there are no returns to worry about either.
Uh, what? Amazon lets you return a Kindle ebook within 7 days of purchase.
Are you aware that DRM on Amazon's Kindle Store is an option selected by publishers?
Consider yourself corrected. Even books sold on Amazon can be DRM-free, with the decision to apply DRM or not left up to each publisher.
Only if Mordor is in Soviet Russia.
Where were they public facing?
Either Jobs or Torvalds would need to be using a car analogy.
That's not new. It happens all the time and has for years.