Pricing - Buncha numbers!

I didn't really think about different prices until someone asked me about it. Some things may be common knowledge to some but not to others. So here goes..

Amazon.com has two pricing structures. Authors get 70% royalty for books priced $2.99 and higher. Any lower than that royalty drops to 35%. Also, each page read of a book on Kindle Unlimited equals to a little less than half a cent per page.

So, in US$ this translates how?
My first book, Pushing our Boundaries was 237 pages (amazon) and $2.99. That would be ABOUT $2.09 per sale, but I think that number is actually lower. I think it might be close to about $1.70, but I haven't studied it too in depth...than what I've already done.

For someone reading thru KU royalty is $1.06 (i base that at .0045 per page. It varies per month, but is usually close to that).

If I sold POB at $2.98? My royalty drops to at least $1.04 per sale.

Remember this is US money. Different marketplaces have different pricing. Ebooks - 13 marketplaces, Print - 8 marketplaces.
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When I made a paperback of that book (thanks to the 2 people who bought it :) :) )...I adjusted the price in each marketplace to reflect close to the same royalty payout as my $2.09 (estimate). Although the stock markets (value of the US dollar vs every other money -euro, pound, etc) vary, I based it on what it was at the time.

BTW paperbacks are only 60% royalty...and printing pages takes a huge hunk out of that. So, on amazon.com it costs $10.49, but yet only $2.08 goes to me.

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These estimates have been good for over a year, and Amazon can change them whenever they feel like it.

The more ya know :)
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Published on October 22, 2019 13:23
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