{"id":1923,"date":"2011-04-11T11:09:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:33","slug":"publisher-says-she-cant-afford-to-sell-books-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/11\/publisher-says-she-cant-afford-to-sell-books-on-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Publisher says she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford to sell books on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UK publisher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lament: She loses more than \u00c2\u00a32 every time one of her books is sold on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>As Lynn Michell, publisher of the Scottish press Linen Press (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Great writing for women, by women\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), explains in a commentary for the Guardian,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon takes 60% of my RRP [cover price] (in the book trade, the bigger the sales outfit, the bigger the discount they demand from the publisher: Amazon 60%; Waterstones 50%; independent bookshop 35%). On a \u00c2\u00a311.99 book, Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s takings are\u00ef\u00bf\u00a1\u00c2\u00a37.20. Mine are \u00c2\u00a34.80.<\/p>\n<p>Out of this comes \u00c2\u00a32.50 to pack and post the book to Amazon, and the author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s royalties on a heavily discounted book reduced to 50p. My writers lose out on an Amazon sale, too. That leaves 82p for Linen Press, but the book cost \u00c2\u00a34 to produce. So I lose \u00c2\u00a32.18 on every sale by Amazon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=30406\">MOBYLIVES \u00c2\u00bb Publisher says she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford to sell books on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK publisher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lament: She loses more than \u00c2\u00a32 every time one of her books is sold on Amazon. As Lynn Michell, publisher of the Scottish press Linen Press (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Great writing for women, by women\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), explains in a commentary for the Guardian, Amazon takes 60% of my RRP [cover price] (in the book trade, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/11\/publisher-says-she-cant-afford-to-sell-books-on-amazon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Publisher says she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford to sell books on Amazon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[218,315,316,219],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","tag-amazon","tag-costs","tag-linenpress","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10178,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/10178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}