{"id":64,"date":"2011-07-12T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/amazon-overcharging-for-ebooks\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:44:00","slug":"amazon-overcharging-for-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/amazon-overcharging-for-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Overcharging for Ebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Gaughran\u00a0 has posted a disturbing essay<\/a> on why ebooks cost more through Amazon than in the US and a select few other countries.\u00a0 You should read David’s post, especially if you live outside the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Ireland, and a few other countries.\u00a0 In most of the world, including France, Spain, Israel, South Africa, India, and Brazil just to name a few off the top of my head, there’s a $2 surcharge added in addition to any sales tax or VAT.\u00a0 This surcharge goes directly to Amazon, not to a government, and certainly not to the author.\u00a0 While most of my readers are American, I know there are a few in countries in which Amazon slaps this surcharge.\u00a0 David is encouraging his readers to buy through Smashwords or iTunes, because there surcharge isn’t added there and the author gets more money.<\/p>\n

Some of you may have noticed that I’ve recently become an Amazon Associate.\u00a0 You may be wondering:\u00a0 Will Amazon be displeased with this post, will they revoke my Associate status, and will I lose a revenue stream in they do?\u00a0 The answers to those questions are:\u00a0 Almost certainly, maybe, and not at all.\u00a0 If Amazon were to even notice this small blog, they would almost certainly be displeased and could very well revoke my Associate status.\u00a0 But at the present time, I wouldn’t lose a dime.\u00a0 Because so far I haven’t made any money by being an Associate.\u00a0 (Considering a recent post<\/a> which stated that Locus Online<\/a>, which probably gets more hits in a month than both my blogs combined have ever gotten total, only generated a few hundred dollars a month from links to Amazon, I’m not exactly planning my retire on my earnings.)<\/p>\n

I’m less concerned about ad revenue than I am fair trade practices.\u00a0 What Amazon is doing is hurting authors in the long run, as David so eloquently explained.\u00a0 Since I hope to begin doing some indie publishing myself within the next year, I’m taking the long term approach rather than the short term by not offending Amazon.\u00a0 Plus it’s just the right thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Gaughran\u00a0 has posted a disturbing essay on why ebooks cost more through Amazon than in the US and a select few other countries.\u00a0 You should read David’s post, especially if you live outside the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Ireland, and a few other countries.\u00a0 In most of the world, including France, Spain, Israel, South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon-business-practices","category-david-gaughran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-12","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}