On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 11:19:09PM +0000, Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
There is a precedent for the argument that giving the book away for free doesn't count as the lowest sale price (it isn't being sold). The example I found is Cory Doctorow (who is famous for offering all his books for free download): For the Win (as a Kindle edition): [1]http://www.amazon.com/For-the-Win-ebook/dp/B003VTZSK4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1291504446&sr=8-3 For the Win (as a free download from Cory's website): [2]http://craphound.com/ftw/download/ Note, the Kindle version is $9.99 So, I think PG could get away with selling any of our work for $.99 a copy.
Absolutely. We're going to try it. I'm wading through their paperwork... Linda plans on taking the first steps for us, but might want help. Maybe there can be parallel efforts... -- Greg
Though, I agree with you in your other post about the quality not really being there for a lot of it. Â Maybe we should make a volunteer effort to post the "Top 100" PG works to Amazon ... Josh
On Dec 3, 2010, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
On 12/03/2010 01:30 PM, Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
> 3 - I also think we should have (we as in PG) "published" everything to Amazon > et al as soon as it became obviously this new-fangled ebook reader fad was gonna > stick around!
From preliminary research it figures that:
- You cannot offer free Kindle books (yet). - Minimum price would be $0.99 - $2.99 (depending on size). - We would get only 35% royalty (you are not allowed to sell PD stuff under the 70% royalty option).
furthermore:
"... you must adjust the List Price as required to ensure that the List Price, plus 15% (the statutory Luxembourg VAT rate) for sales to UK customers, does not exceed the lowest of: (a) the lowest suggested retail price or equivalent price for any digital or physical edition of the Digital Book; (b) the lowest price at which you list or offer any digital or physical edition of the Digital Book on any website or other sales channel; and (c) any maximum List Price we provide from time to time in the Program Policies."
---- [3]http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/entry.jspa?externalID=393
This has the ridiculous consequence that everybody can sell stuff from PG on Amazon except PG. We would have to match the price we 'sell' the book on gutenberg.org and at the same time maintain a minimum price of $0.99.
-- Marcello Perathoner [4]webmaster@gutenberg.org
References
Visible links 1. http://www.amazon.com/For-the-Win-ebook/dp/B003VTZSK4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1291504446&sr=8-3 2. http://craphound.com/ftw/download/ 3. http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/entry.jspa?externalID=393 4. mailto:webmaster@gutenberg.org
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