Ryan Santle asked Jay Bell:

Hi Jay! This is actually a non-book related question but more of Amazon's pricing. I believe you price your books at $5.99 (Which is a very great value.) However, I just found out that ever since I bought your books from Amazon (non-US resident here), I am paying $7.99 ($2 more) which is more than fine ONLY if you, as an author, are getting more from it as well (which you SHOULD be). Are you aware of this?

Jay Bell Do you buy them through Amazon.com and use US dollars to pay? If so, it's down to the fees that Amazon choose's to add. I can control to some extent the prices in the US and Europe, but everything else is based on the US price with whatever mysterious fees Amazon decides to add. I'm honestly not sure if that means I get more money or not.

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Ryan Santle I just researched about it a while ago and I can definitely say that the $2 surcharge is definitely Amazon's cause and they're the only one who pocket ...more
Nov 05, 2015 07:28AM · flag

Jay Bell From what I've read, Amazon drops the surcharge once enough copies of a book have sold internationally. It doesn't make sense to me, but it is one of ...more
Nov 05, 2015 08:20AM · flag

Ryan Santle I just finished talking to an Amazon representative and they told me that it was the Publisher who chose to charge $2 more for non-US buyers:

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Nov 05, 2015 08:53AM · flag