KDP hasn't done anything. Amazon, like every other retailer in a free-market economy, is perfectly entitled to set whatever price they like for the products they offer. The publisher (you) sets the retail list price, which is a suggested price, like MSRP. Retailers are free to use that price or disregard it. For a print book, you'll always earn the amount indicated in your KDP Bookshelf for any sales of that book. There isn't anything you can do about it.

 

In short, no. Amazon reserves the right to set the price how they see fit.

 

Did you read the TOS you agreed to? Because you entered into a business agreement with Amazon. It would be a good idea to know what you attached your digital signature to.

Here is the part you are are wondering if you can do anything about.

KDP Agreement ...we have sole and complete discretion to set the retail customer price at which your Books are sold through the Program.

 

Long time ago. I didn't mind them doing it to a print book of mine in the UK if only they had told me about it, but it was too late to market the price drop when I found out and it went back to normal the day after. The other problem is that they won't say how long it is at the reduced price for the purposes of marketing.

They reduced it from the equivalent in dollars of 13.95 in to 2.95. The other problem was that as a result, according to their terms, the ebook can't be at a lower price, and so they price matched it down from the equivalent of $4.99 to 2.95. The plus side was that I sold 20 eBooks in a day and thought I was going to be roiling in royalties, but the royalties on my dashboard didn't match what I had set as the retail price.

That was the only reason I discovered the print book had reduced when I queried the eBook royalties. For the print book, you still get the full royalty, but not for the eBook if it has to be price matched as a result. That is also in their terms and conditions. Sod's law that I didn't sell any print books, lol.

If it's just a price reduction for the ebook only, then you get full royalties.

 

For the print book, you still get the full royalty, but not for the eBook if it has to be price matched as a result. That is also in their terms and conditions.

I know about price reduction, but I never think it could be so drastic reduction.

When you said I still get full royalty for the printed book, this means I get the same amount per sale?

 

Please don't awaken a more than 4-year-old zombie thread, especially when your entire point is just to get someone to contact you outside of this thread so you can spam them, most likely.