Amazon UK Kindle store gets the 70% option

It's here, finally. Amazon announced that the 70% royalty option for the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) is now available in the UK Kindle Store. For each book sold from the Amazon.co.uk Kindle Store, authors can choose this option immediately and start earning a 70 percent royalty, net of delivery costs.


Books receiving the 70% royalty will have access to all the same features and be subject to all the same requirements as books receiving the standard royalty rate. If Amazon sells the book below the list price to match a competitor’s price or the physical book price, the royalty will be calculated based on the sales price.

To qualify for the 70% royalty option, books must meet the following set of requirements:

• The author or publisher-supplied list price must be between £1.49 and £6.99.
• The list price must be at least 20 percent below the lowest list price for the physical book.
• The title is made available for sale in all geographies for which the author or publisher has rights.
• The title will be included in a broad set of features in the Kindle Store, such as text-to-speech. This list of features will grow over time as Amazon continues to add more functionality to Kindle and the Amazon.co.uk Kindle Store.

The 70 percent royalty option is for in-copyright works only.