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Writer's Haven => Quill and Feather Pub [Public] => Topic started by: Lynn on October 14, 2020, 08:02:15 AM
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We are making several important changes that benefit our publishing partners.
We are updating the Terms of Service applicable to Google Play Books (ToS) in several ways. The ToS are an agreement that contain important terms affecting your rights when publishing your ebooks on Google Play Books.
We’re increasing your revenue split to 70% in 60+ countries as part of our continuing effort to improve your publisher experience. You will earn 70% of the list price on ebooks sold to customers in these 60+ countries regardless of the price of your ebook. You will continue to receive your current revenue split on sales in the remaining Google Play Books supported countries.
We will unilaterally follow the list price that you provide for an ebook on sales to customers in the United States and Canada. We reserve the right to discount if we see a lower price for the ebook available from another retailer.
We’ve updated the ToS to remove Google Asia Pacific Pte Limited, Google Commerce Limited, and Google Ireland Limited as parties to the ToS and we are adding a sublicense clause allowing Google LLC to sublicense to Google affiliates such as those mentioned above.
From an email I just got.
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Dear Partner,
We are making several important changes that benefit our publishing partners.
We are updating the Terms of Service applicable to Google Play Books (ToS) in several ways. The ToS are an agreement that contain important terms affecting your rights when publishing your ebooks on Google Play Books.
We’re increasing your revenue split to 70% in 60+ countries as part of our continuing effort to improve your publisher experience. You will earn 70% of the list price on ebooks sold to customers in these 60+ countries regardless of the price of your ebook. You will continue to receive your current revenue split on sales in the remaining Google Play Books supported countries.
We will unilaterally follow the list price that you provide for an ebook on sales to customers in the United States and Canada. We reserve the right to discount if we see a lower price for the ebook available from another retailer.
We’ve updated the ToS to remove Google Asia Pacific Pte Limited, Google Commerce Limited, and Google Ireland Limited as parties to the ToS and we are adding a sublicense clause allowing Google LLC to sublicense to Google affiliates such as those mentioned above.
Thank you for being part of the Google Play Books publishing community.
The Google Play Books Team
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Just found the email, too, and I'm thrilled! This'll get me a lot more money through my box sets!
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Is this a game-changer? Because it sounds like one to me. :banana:
I would remind everyone that Amazon has a history of matching its competitors when it comes to things like this. :ices_angel_g:
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This is good ... but bad for figuring out price adjusting (for me right now, anyway).
This means we should just price ebooks at the standard price now, right? Otherwise, the price will be elevated in all the markets at the prior prices.
So GooglePlay now simply matches the price you put down, right?
But, when I check, India is still listed at 52%. So are a few other countries. India in particular is important for intl promos like BookBub. So, are you guys still doing the elevated price chart for India?
example. If I want to price my ebook at $3.99 in India, it should be priced $5.18. Right? :HB
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I set all my ebooks at $3.99 USD. That leaves mainly India & Japan in the Amazon market that might be priced matched lower from the same old royalty rate. Nearly all other countries are now 70%.
I'd be curious to see what the rest of you guys did.
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I'm not in a hurry. I had already changed my US prices based on the last big tos change that gave 70% for the US, AU, and CA (and stopped the random discounting there).
Eventually, I'm going to comb through it and figure out which ones won't be price matched and lower them to my standard retail prices instead of the padded ones that were my attempt to make up for the discounting.
Assuming that's changed. I have to read the whole thing and a late evening email about a tos change isn't getting that kind of attention from me!
ETA: Thank God they offer the spreadsheet for updates. It'll make things a whole lot easier.
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Even after a hard refresh of the pages, I'm still seeing that Google is discounting the US prices for my box sets (so those books over $9.99). Has anybody seen a change away from Google using the discount for their own books?
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I still got some funky prices on Google play. Side note - the new dashboard that shows you sales is nice.
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Has anybody seen a change away from Google using the discount for their own books?
Yes. One of my ebooks is priced at $5.81 in Canada while the others are $5.21 (all should be priced the same). Interestingly, I believe Amazon price matched my ebook up to match Google Play's new price (I hadn't dropped the price to the "regular price" of $3.99 yet). Yesterday, I changed all my ebooks to one flat price of $3.99 so hopefully that fixes the price matching.
I mean, this is a pretty small difference in price, but it means we have do have to take notice of this.
I'm still debating if I should up-price ebooks in all countries still at the 52% royalty. ?? There's still around 10 countries listed with the old royalty.
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Has anybody seen a change away from Google using the discount for their own books?
Yes. One of my ebooks is priced at $5.81 in Canada while the others are $5.21 (all should be priced the same). Interestingly, I believe Amazon price matched my ebook up to match Google Play's new price (I hadn't dropped the price to the "regular price" of $3.99 yet). Yesterday, I changed all my ebooks to one flat price of $3.99 so hopefully that fixes the price matching.
I mean, this is a pretty small difference in price, but it means we have do have to take notice of this.
I'm still debating if I should up-price ebooks in all countries still at the 52% royalty. ?? There's still around 10 countries listed with the old royalty.
How strange. I changed all of my US when Google announced the last price change in 3 countries sometime last year (July?), so I won't be seeing a change in anything under $10 US. I was more wondering if any books prices above the $9.99 breakoff point in the US had seen the discount disappear.
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I would remind everyone that Amazon has a history of matching its competitors when it comes to things like this. :ices_angel_g:
Gotta love competition. :)