Sticker Shock: How Much Amazon Charges Authors To Deliver One E-Book

“Andrew Hyde wrote and self-published a great-looking travel book and put it up for sale on Amazon … but he got some sticker-shock when he found out that Amazon was charging very high ‘delivery fees’ for his books, even when the buyers were buying from WiFi.” The fee: “$2.58 per download + 30% of whatever you sell” – a markup Hyde calculates to be roughly 129,000%.”