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As someone who has self-published a book on the Amazon Kindle store once, Amazon's cut is something like 70% + bandwidth fees (author only gets maybe ~25–28% of the selling price).


I find it hard to believe you’d ever earn enough on an Amazon book to make any such contract worth it.


70% of $100k = $70k 30% of $1mil = $300k

Scale makes it seem pretty straightforward to me.


What percentage of books do you think make $m in sales? 0.1%? 0.01%?

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books




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