Amazon today announced they are opening their platform to sell digital books internationally. Specifically, this means that if you are a author or a publisher who wants to publish a book written in English, German or French and who does not reside in the U.S., then you can upload your book to Amazon DTP platform for distributing it electronically.
I'm going to make short.
1 .- You write a book in English, German or French (or you steal one, the point is that what you have to have digital formats).
2 .- You sign up at Amazon, I send the text, and covenant with them a list price and a royalty percentage. If you're not famous, it is common to propose a final price of USD 1.99 and a royalty agreements 35%.
3 .- Wait for someone to want to buy your book and receive 60 days after the last sale, a check (if the money accumulated exceeds $ 100).
The truth is that I am not the author, but if one does not know if I would really like these conditions. Amazon, doing absolutely no work editing steals 65% of your work. Only given the penalty to include you in their holy database.
Last Minute
Today (20/01) Amazon issued another press release which warn that the authors may apply for a royalty of 70% under some restrictions (see http://www.businesswire.com/ news/home/20100120005644/en/AMAZON-ANNOUNCES-70-PER CENT-ROYALTY-OPTION-KINDLE). This is valid from 30 June for the books sold in the United States. This shows that Amazon is to build a platform number one selling e-books, being very attractive commercially to the authors. But probably, without tiring too much editorial work of any kind. We follow the logic of a distribution machine.
With tweet cverdu for information, via Techcrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/20/amazon-royalty-kindle-dtp/) .
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