Amazon Sales - Getting Your Book Published

The most simple way to sell an item on Amazon is to list it in the Amazon Marketplace. There's no up front cost. With Amazon Marketplace, you take care of all shipping. Amazon sends you an alert when someone has bought your item, and you are responsible for sending it out with an invoice and such. Now note, the item MUST be in their system already, so this is good to do with books that have normal publishers lined up. You can sell an autographed version via the marketplace, and let them handle the larger number of sales.

If the book is NOT in their system, you need to sign up for a Marketplace Pro Merchant account, to add it in. This is $40/month so it's really only meant for larger companies.

Here's an example of an Amazon marketplace sale statement. For books, the Amazon commission rate is 15%.

Funds should appear in your account in approximately five banking days.

Here's your statement.

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STATEMENT

Account Summary

Closing Balance as of 05-May-2007: $11.12

Marketplace

              Payments Received        $15.04
              Fees                     -$3.92
              Seller Fees              $0.00
              Buyer Refunds            $0.00
              --------------------------------------------
              Subtotal for Marketplace $11.12

    Balance from Previous Statement    $0.00
    Credit Card Decline                $0.00
    Misc. Credits                      $0.00
    Misc. Debits                       $0.00
    Reserve carryover
    from previous settlement           0.00
    Reserve Amount                     0.00

                                       -----------
    Disbursable Balance:               $11.12

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