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Interesting that amazon takes 65% on .99. A lot of apps in apple store are .99 and as far as I know apple still takes only 30% on those. Maybe it's true that apple is just breaking even on the app store. Not so evil as we've been led to believe.
Btw, even "expensive" apps from big names like EA will occasionally go on sale for .99, when they rocket up the sales chart. Unlike widgets and iThingies, it costs nothing to replicate an ebook or app once you've produced the first one, so you can't lose money on every sale unless you price it lower than your transaction cost. |
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According to this, Apple has paid out over $1Bn to app store developers, which would equate to a take of ~$430M for Apple. By comparison, in just Q4 of last year, they made $4.32Bn profit on $20.34Bn revenue. Of that $20Bn, ~$1Bn was iTunes store revenue.
This time last year, Apple were describing both the iTunes and app stores as at bit over break-even. Apple views selling content primarily as a way of increasing hardware sales, the opposite of Amazon, who view selling Kindles primarily as way of increasing eBooks sales. (Hence both Apple and Amazon benefit by having a Kindle app on the iPad.) Last edited by murraypaul; 03-14-2011 at 11:53 AM. |
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I think it's true of 90% of self published books. And it's way too time-consuming to find the 10% or so that could have been traditionally published.
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If I knew I'd enjoy, oh, 75% of published books, that would be reasonable. Since I'm only interested in 10% or so of the stuff that's commercially published, looking for the 1% of the self-released stuff that interests me isn't much more of a hardship. It also includes the chance of running across gems that would never reach a mainstream publisher but are exactly in line with my specific interests.
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The use of the 35% royalty rate is interesting. Do $.99 books of his really sell more than 6 times as much as $2.99 books (which would net a 70% royalty)? The dynamics here are interesting.
Here's the royalty information for amazon if anyone is interested: http://forums.kindledirectpublishing...externalID=393 and http://forums.kindledirectpublishing...externalID=453 Edit: This is actually really tricky stuff to determine. Figuring out the elasticity of the market isn't easy and you can't directly compare this guy's books to books by others (not trivially anyhow). Heck, it is a bit questionable to compare one of his ebooks to another one. Quote:
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