If you buy a Cheapass game for $5 and play it one time it’s cheaper entertainment than seeing a movie, and I’d say you’ve already recouped your initial investment. There are both excellent and awful games in each price category.

A large board game like Twilight Imperium cost about $80, a typical board game like Settlers of Catan cost about $40, and a company called Cheapass Games makes dozens of different games for about $5 each, these are printed in black & white and you are expected to have your own dice and pawns. I used to work at a game store where we sold board games, among other things. I am not saying this is good news for authors.

So in terms of sales, whether an author sells 1,000 copies themselves directly, or via a traditional publishing house, they will make the same amount of money. It is a significant reduction of the difference.Īmazon pays out 35% for ebooks priced below $1.99, and 70% for ebooks that are $1.99 and up.Īlso, as others have noted, $1 is near to the royalty payment that an author will receive on, say, a paperback trade book. Readers MCM and EsmeraldaGreene offered calculations. UPDATE 2: Several readers asked what the figures would be if we factored in Amazon’s cut. UPDATE: My math is horrible I originally had the decimal point wrong.

I predict we’ll be there in 5 years, (before the marginal price drops to zero, but that is another story.) It seems insane, dangerous, life threatening, but inevitable. I don’t think publishers are ready for how low book prices will go. I was selling 40 copies a day prior to that.Ĭurrently, The List is #37 in the Top 100 Bestsellers on the Kindle. The other day Joe Konrath, a genre writer, and avid self-publisher of ebooks, said:Įighteen days ago, I dropped the price of my ebook, The List, from $2.99 to 99 cents on Amazon. Here’s a reason why they’ll be as inexpensive as music.

Collections of the Material Subconscious.

Predicting the Present, First Five Years of Wired.

Walk the moon album sale 99 cents