Kindle eBooks

Basics

• Amazon (Company) 's eBook Publishing Service
• Essentially the "industry standard" due to the prevalence of the Kindle e-Book Reader and amazon as a Corperate Hegemon
• Can publish Free Books (or in the OSE Book's case FLOSB )
• Should (will?) be used for the OSE Books
• A form of Independant Book Publishing

How to Publish on It

• Their Page on How-To Self Publish with their service

The "Real Talk"

Pricing

• From their Website:
  • KDP offers a fixed 60% royalty rate on paperbacks sold on Amazon marketplaces where KDP supports paperback distribution. Your royalty is 60% of your list price. We then subtract printing costs, which depend on page count, ink type, and the Amazon marketplace your paperback was ordered from. Learn how printing costs are calculated.

(Royalty rate x list price) – printing costs = royalty

For example, your list price is $15. Your book is a 333-page paperback with black ink sold on the US marketplace:

(0.60 x $15) - $4.85 = $4.15

Internal Links

• Publishing

External Links

• A In Depth Guide on this