For those planning promos, be aware ranking is delayed by at least 2 days in the US Amazon (I'm wondering 3 this time?). I've sold 20 books for Princess Sojourn and Harmonia in 2 days so far with my current 3 day promotion. The needle hasn't moved after 2 days with ranking still 300k and 900k.

Interestingly, the sales are trickling unlike a BookBub. So there goes the theory that the system blocks rankings from a sudden surge. Gotta be something else.

If an image is purely superfluous, such as an image used to give the impression of round corners (before CSS had routines for that), then the ALT text can be empty.

But, if the image has a purpose, then it should have ALT text.

I don't use Word so I don't know.  I know Pages can do it so I would imagine Word can as well.  But, if I recall, you use an older version of Word, which may not have the feature.

Post-Doctorate D is correct.  I was forced by a security plugin to update the ALT text for all the images on my site...

R.C.

In the U.S., business websites are required to be ADA-accessible.  It's conceivable that Amazon is adding this to eBooks now, though generally eBooks by their nature are pretty accessible.  Images would require special attention.  I doubt very many of us use images, but if you do, they should have ALT text in their tags so readers for the visually impaired would be able to describe the image for those that can't see it.  Also, and again most of us don't do this, but if you are putting text in specific colors or using backgrounds and such, you want to make sure there is a high enough contrast so it is readable by people with poor vision.  And so on.

Of course, that's a guess but that's what comes to mind when someone says "accessibility features."

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That makes no sense. Go to the pricing page and take an image of the US price box. Without seeing what you're seeing, none of that makes any sense.

Attached is what I see.  It's from the only paperback I have.  Right now, it shows a $2.07 royalty at the 60% rate.  If it dropped to 50%, I calculate my royalty would be $0.06 which isn't much but is more than zero.  But, since it is priced at $19.99, it should not be affected by the change because it is more than $9.99.

Isn't the math wrong?

19.99-9.93=10.06 60% of 10.06 is 6.03. Where is the 2.07 coming from? Am I just missing something obvious?

Amazon deducts the printing cost from your royalty share.

So, 60% of 19.99 is 11.994 minus 9.93 = 2.064 which Amazon kindly rounds up to 2.07.

I guess that's the way it's always been. It would be better for us if the print cost were subtracted from the retail price, and we got 60% of the remainder, which is the way I was doing it. Somehow, I had convince myself that was the way it was actually being done.

That's because that would make the most sense and be the most fair.  That was how I tried doing the math initially as well.  But, this is Amazon, and authors aren't vendors, we're customers.  They promise us great royalties, but then they claw that back if you're using AMS to get those sales in the first place.  And, for print, no doubt they are using their own printing facilities so, beyond the cost of paper, ink and equipment maintenance, they are getting a good chunk of the printing cost as well.  So, they take it from us all the way around.