Assuming the price range is higher, it could have been a promotional tool for every Kindle book, but as it is now, it’s for books within the price range of $9.99 and below.įind out more about Kindle Direct Publishing from "Where is my Money? Now solved for Kindle and CreateSpace".In true Amazon style the company has feature that shows they’re an innovating powerhouse in the global publishing space. Can you sell a book worth $39.88 at $2.99 in the name of promotion? Note: Like Kindle Select, KDP MatchBook is not for highly priced books because of the mandatory 50% off of the title’s original list price that the author has to set for the Matchbook (Remove 50% from a book priced at $39.88 and see how fair you will find it ).Īnother thing is the promotional price range: $2.99, $1.99, 0.99 Cents and free.
KINDLE MATCHBOOK SEARCH FOR FREE
KDP Select’s Free Promotion and MatchBook Price: If you set your Kindle title for free as a result of KDP Select and the title is also in the Matchbook program, it will be affected during that period because the Matchbook price will also be free until the promotion is over.Įxample: when a title with $1.99 matchbook’s price is set free via KDP Select program, every customer including those for the matchbook who would have bought it for $1.99 will download it for free until the day the promotion ends, then it will return to $1.99. If the dot com site is not among the selected marketplaces for the book, it will be ineligible for MatchBook program. They are included in “Prior Months’ Royalties” of your royalty reports.įor a book to participate in KDP Matchbook program, it must have a paperback version and a promotional price of at least 50% off of its original/regular list price, and the paperback version of the book must be sold by or made available through amazon dot com.
Amazon will gain nothing from it, you also will gain nothing.Īt this time, royalties for MatchBook are not calculated separately like KDP Select. Note: if you set $0.0 for your Matchbook, you will not receive any royalty when a customer downloads it. So the calculation formula of your royalty remains the same with MatchBook.Įxample: if the Matchbook’s price of a book is $2.99 and its royalty option is 70%, the Matchbook’s royalty becomes 70% of $2.99 which should be around $2 (remember the file delivery charge will be subtracted). If you are in the 70% royalty option, KDP’s share is 30% but if you are in the 35% option, KDP’s share becomes 65%. Matchbook royalties are calculated based on the promotional list price of the book and its royalty option just like your normal list price royalty calculation (The list price – KDP’s share = your royalty). Kindle MatchBook program is not the same with Select and books can be enrolled into it irrespective of their Select status (You can enroll your title in Matchbook or Select, or even combine the two programs). Where is my money? Now solved for Kindle and CreateSpace When an author or a publisher enrolls his book in the KDP Matchbook program, he earns royalties for that book according to the royalty option and promotional price he set for the book, not the regular list price.
The promotional price is between $2.99 and free. This is an Amazon KDP's program that enables customers who previously bought the print version of a title to purchase its Kindle version at a discounted rate which must be 50% off of its normal digital list price.
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