![]() Yes, it would be cool if Amazon gave you the e-books. Yes, I think this could work in some cases. Buy a DVD, get a digital copy.īut in that case, you didn’t typically already own the DVD, of course. I know some companies have made the equivalent work with some media. To give to somebody else, of course…which could be losing them a sale. What if they said that if you bought the p-book, they’d give the e-book for free? If you don’t already own the p-book and you read on a Kindle, why do you want it? I wanted to have the reference capabilities, for one thing, and I wanted to listen to the Oz books in the car for another. People already pay for e-books they previously bought as paperbooks (p-books). They do have to pay the author a royalty on the e-book sale, typically, but they could offer you something cheaper if you buy both formats. “Well,” you say, “couldn’t the publisher give me a package deal for buying the e-book and the paperbook?” You have to sit at a computer to read it, although you can do some cool things like copy and paste. You can not download this for your Kindle. You don’t get a file of the book.Īlso important: you pay for it, usually. That’s key, and why the rights situation is different. With Amazon Upgrade you can read electronic versions of paperbooks you bought (the program precedes the Kindle)…but only online. Some people know about a program called Amazon Upgrade (I’ve written about it here), but that’s a very different thing. Increasing volume isn’t the only way to make money in retail. If they just give all of their books away for free, they’d “sell” a lot more…and lose tons of money. It isn’t just quantity…it has to be profit. “But,” I’ve seen people say, “they’d sell a lot more books.” Why should the publisher give you a break because you bought it from somebody else at some point? They didn’t get any of that profit. The people who owned the rights for the e-book are not necessarily the people who own the rights for the p-book you are buying. You paid $1.50…not a very good deal for them. Now, the e-book price is likely to be a lot more than that. ![]() Let’s say you bought a paperback for $2.99…so Amazon paid $1.50 for it (if Amazon even sold it to you…another major problem). That’s no proof, of course, but that suggests that they think you should get a free or discounted e-book even if you bought it years ago. I’ve heard people even talking about sending proof that you own the book, like the UPC code. The situation gets worse if you bought it years ago. They still make a little direct money that way, but it isn’t much. Now, the e-book is $7.99 (again, under the Wholesale Model for now).Īmazon got $16 from you, and paid the publisher about $14. Let’s say you bought the hardback last year for $16 (again, when it was list priced for $20…Amazon paid the publisher $10). That does make it easier, but still not good. Well, what if you bought the hardback, and now the paperback has come out, so the price is lower? That’s not very practical for Amazon…they are willing to lose money on some books, but they couldn’t do this consistently to this extent. So, you would have paid sixteen dollars…and Amazon would have paid twenty in direct money (ten for the hardback, ten for the e-book, plus costs of sale). In this case, that means twenty dollars.Īmazon would have to pay ten dollars to the publisher to give you the e-book. Under the Wholesale Model, it’s pretty common for the e-book publisher to price the e-book the same as the paperbook. So, Amazon made six dollars for it in direct money (ignoring the costs of sale, which include returns by other customers, Customer Service, and so on). Amazon would have paid the publisher ten dollars for it under the old wholesale model (the Agency Model doesn’t apply to paperbooks). Amazon sold it for $16 (they commonly discount). So, let’s say the book was published in hardback at $20. There are two plans there: either the publisher gets 35% of the price they set (regardless of what price Amazon sets), or the publisher gets 70% of the price they set The book is published independently through Amazon’s Digital Text Platform.
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