Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000%
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Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000%
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#2This is a pretty huge piece of free advertising for Gumroad and its ilk. I know Andrew, and I know he's put his heart and soul into this book. It's a downright shame to see Amazon taking that size of a cut for self-published works.
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#3I strongly suspect Amazon is offering well-known, "must have" authors a much better deal -- possibly even losing money on sales of some of their books -- and making it up by giving a raw deal to less-well-known, independents like Andrew Hyde, the author of this blog post.
Does anyone here know if this is indeed the case?
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#4Can the market beat this? Or is the gravitational pull of the giant Kindle market too great?
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#5ctrl+f whispernet 0 results found
He's forgetting about the cost of delivering over a cell phone network.
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#6If you use the end user cost you can get a high end estimate for total cost of 3g service. $30 for 2GB of data makes $0.015/MB * 18.1 MB file makes for a total cost to user of $0.27 for delivery.
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#7ctrl+f whispernet 0 results found He's forgetting about the cost of delivering over a cell phone network.
Over a cell phone network a user would pay about $0.27 to download a 18MB file. There is no way an author should have to pay an order of magnitude more.
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#8ctrl+f whispernet 0 results found He's forgetting about the cost of delivering over a cell phone network.
If you actually read the article you'll see that he addresses this and that it applies to wifi purchases.
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#9If you use the end user cost you can get a high end estimate for total cost of 3g service. $30 for 2GB of data makes $0.015/MB * 18.1 MB file makes for a total cost to user of $0.27 for delivery.
The fact that you can get 2 GB of data for $30 doesn't mean that you can get 18 MB of data for $0.27. Most people paying $30 for a 2 GB data plan are using far less than 2 GB of data.
Re: Amazon Digital Markup: 129,000%
#10If you use the end user cost you can get a high end estimate for total cost of 3g service. $30 for 2GB of data makes $0.015/MB * 18.1 MB file makes for a total cost to user of $0.27 for delivery.
The fact that you can get 2 GB of data for $30 doesn't mean that you can get 18 MB of data for $0.27. Most people paying $30 for a 2 GB data plan are using far less than 2 GB of data.
Very true, but the fact that the author is paying a distribution fee an order of magnitude more than the $.27 seems pretty fishy.