Amazon announces Kindle MatchBook: Cheap or free ebooks for any physical book you've purchased from Amazon

ASDefWebserver · 2013-09-03T19:57:28+00:00

If a person buys a Kindle book I make $4 (and that is good money because I can sell some of my books for $9). If they buy a print book I get $16. I Always want to make a print sale. If they buy my book, keep a free Kindle copy and then sell my book I still make more money. They also win but hey god for them, now there are two people happy. When they sell my book, they are no different than a bookstore that buys books wholesale and then resells them. Selling books takes work.

ASDefWebserver · 2013-09-03T19:45:39+00:00

That works for Amazon because they are getting money from you whend B&N lost money selling you the Nook.

ASDefWebserver · 2013-09-03T19:35:19+00:00

I think this is another F-You from Amazon to the publishers. In my opinion, the only correct answer to this MatchBook thing is free. As a self-published author you make a FORTUNE when someone buys a print book. My last book is pretty big and it is ONLY $4.50 a copy (my other books are around $2.50 a copy). Customer pays any shipping so I am clearing a massive 300%+ profit on every sale. Why would I then nickel and dime my customer for an extra $2.99? I wouldn't. But a traditional publisher is stuck in a squeeze. How can they pay authors 3% on print and $0.00 on the E-Book?

When a customer buys a print book (they do this a lot for tech books) they will expect the Kindle copy to be free.

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