This is the time of year when most online stores are pestering you endlessly about the sales they have running. You maybe wondering why I am not doing this. Well partly it is because I suspect you are as fed up of sales-mania as I am. The main reason, however, is that I let the publishers set prices in the store. That’s because of Amazon and their price-matching policies. They like to be the cheapest store around. If they were to notice me running a sale, they would probably drop their prices to match, and they might not bother to put them back up again. As they have no control over what price Amazon sells their books at, publishers worry about this sort of thing, so I only drop prices when they ask me to.
That reminds me, however, that we do have Tansy Rayner Roberts’ award-winning debut novel, Splashdance Siver, available very cheaply until the end of the year. If you’d like to take this opportunity to sample the first volume of the Mocklore Chronicles, you have only a few days left.
I’ve just bought it, but my question is: with the taxes, PayPal fees and all that, do you and/or the author make any money out of it? Just out of curiosity
Well it is all done on percentages, not absolute fees, so everyone gets something. But of course the hope is that you love the book so much you will buy the other two in the series.
And from my point of view, five sales of this book is just as good as one sale of a £3 book. If the sale brings in lots more buyers, all well and good.
Yes, I get that, but I thought PayPal transactions had a flat fee that was quite close to the price of this ebook 😕
They do indeed have a flat fee, but thankfully it is still a less than the price of this book.
PayPal fees are the bane of my life, and I’d be much happier if people buying this book bought something else at the same time. But equally the main problem with the bookstore is lack of traffic, not bargain books.
Understood, thanks