{"id":2800,"date":"2012-06-15T10:36:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:51","slug":"what-does-it-cost-to-deliver-an-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/15\/what-does-it-cost-to-deliver-an-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it cost to deliver an ebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/what-does-it-cost-to-deliver-an-ebook\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/amazon-worst-for-authors-takehome.png.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Cory Doctorow<\/strong> focuses on author<strong> Andrew Hyde<\/strong>, who recently \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wrote and self-published <a href=\"http:\/\/thisbookisabouttravel.com\/\">a great-looking travel book<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d via the usual ebook retail channels but later experienced \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sticker-shock\u00e2\u20ac\u009d after learning that <strong>Amazon<\/strong> was charging huge fees to deliver the ebook to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s total fees ate away almost a third of Hyde\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s royalty: The book retails on Amazon for $9.99, and under the 70% percent royalty plan Hyde imagined he would get $7. But Amazon charges $2.58 per download to deliver the ebook, with the author\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s royalty being calculated on what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left after the delivery fee is deducted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/what-does-it-cost-to-deliver-an-ebook\/\">via What does it cost to deliver an ebook?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author self-publishes his own book and distributes it  via Amazon; is a bit amazed at semi-hidden &#8216;delivery&#8217; costs.  Leads to the ever-relevant question: what does it cost to deliver an e-book?<\/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],"tags":[218,215,645,335,646],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-amazon","tag-cost","tag-ibooks","tag-kindle","tag-pdf-ebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","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=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10034,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/10034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}