When I first published Angels Without Faces onto Amazon, Apple, and Kobo, I confess it was very much a click and close my eyes exercise. As I’ve learned more over the past few months, and built a backlog of stories to publish, I decided to have a look at the pricing I have in place.

Each of the major sites above takes the US dollar price and converts to local currency. For some locations, this is acceptable. For others, such as India, the converted price is substantially out of line with the norms in that market place.

So, I engaged in an exercise to adjust prices as necessary, and align across the Amazon, Apple, and Kobo platforms. Easy, right? As long as you keep a note by currency or territory it should be.

Except . . .

Amazon has a set of minimum prices by currency, and won’t allow you adjust below that. Apple and Kobo change the royalty as you change the price, and have different mininums. An hour into it, despite the note taking and multiple screens, I was totally confused and exited out of it all. Amazon defines the price by the Amazon store, Apple by country, and Kobo by currency.

Time for a rethink, and then jump in again. It would be nice if I could set a template for each price point – $2.99, $4.99 etc., and apply that to the book I’m publishing. If it’s there, I haven’t found it yet!