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From an article in paidContent:

Amazon is selling at least two Amazon Publishing e-books in other digital bookstores, Publishers Lunchdiscovered (paywall) last night. Until now, it has sold its e-books exclusively through the Kindle Store.

The books are Oliver Pötzsch’s bestselling “The Hangman’s Daughter” and the sequel to that book, “The Dark Monk,” released on Tuesday.

“The Hangman’s Daughter,” with a digital list price of $9.99, is $3.99 in the Kindle Store (or free in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library). It’s $8.99 in Barnes & Noble’s Nook store, $9.99 in the iBookstore and $7.69 at Kobo.

“The Dark Monk,” with a digital list price of $9.99, is$7.69 in the Kindle Store (or free in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library). It’s $8.99 for Nook, $9.99 in the iBookstore and $7.69 at Kobo.

I can’t find either book in Google’s digital bookstore, Books for Google Play, or in the Sony (SNE) Bookstore.

2 COMMENTS

  1. “The Hangman’s Daughter” is at Kobo in Canada for $8.69 but the publisher is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. “The Dark Monk” is similarly priced and also from HMH.

    Both books are from AmazonCrossing publishers to Canadians as Kindle ebooks at $3.99 and $7.99 respectively. Amazon Prime and Book Lending does not apply outside of the US.

    No sign of it here in Google Play Canada either.

  2. There’s an interesting inconsistency here. Both Amazon and Apple have wanted authors/publishers to agree that they wouldn’t sell ebooks at a lower price elsewhere. And yet what is Amazon doing here? Offering an Amazon Publishing ebook on the Kindle Store for less than half of what it sells on B&N or the iBookstore. And it’s easy to suspect that a requirement to sell at those higher prices is part of Amazon’s deal with the other two online retailers. Do as I say not as I do.

    Assuming the author is getting 70% of retail, I wonder which retail price is being used for the royalties Amazon is paying Oliver Pötzsch. Is he getting about $2.79 for books sold by Amazon but $6.29 for those sold by B&N and $6.99 for those sold by the iBookstore? Or is Amazon simply treating the two stores as if they were retail customers and paying him only $2.79?

    All this confusion illustrates that ebook retailing has yet to mature and stabilize.

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