Online books retailer Amazon.com, Inc., US, has announced that the 70 percent royalty option for the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) is now available in the UK. For each book sold from the Amazon.co.uk Kindle Store, authors and publishers can choose this option immediately and start earning a 70 percent royalty, net of delivery costs. The Kindle Digital Text Platform claims to be a fast and easy tool which allows publishers and authors worldwide to add their books and start selling in the UK Kindle Store (and Amazon's global Kindle Store on www.amazon.com) in minutes.
Delivery costs are based on file size, and pricing is set at £0.10/MB. This new option will be in addition to and will not replace the existing DTP standard royalty option. DTP authors and publishers will now be able to select the royalty option that best meets their needs for books sold in the UK and US. Books receiving the 70 percent royalty will have access to all the same features and be subject to all the same requirements as books receiving the standard royalty rate.
Under this royalty option, authors and publishers will earn 70 percent of the list price of their books, net of delivery costs. To qualify for the 70 percent royalty option, books must satisfy a set of requirements. These include: the author or publisher-supplied list price must be between £1.49 and £6.99; the list price must be at least 20 percent below the lowest list price for the physical book; the title is made available for sale in all geographies for which the author or publisher has rights; and the title will be included in a broad set of features in the Kindle Store, such as text-to-speech.
This list of features will grow over time as Amazon continues to add more functionality to Kindle and the Amazon.co.uk Kindle Store. The 70 percent royalty option is for in-copyright works only.
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