Thanks, Brian, for that information. I had no idea that Amazon had such a policy.
Presumably one would charge more for a novel with illustrations, though. I've bought non-fiction books that had many illustrations. They cost, if I remember correctly, around seventeen or eighteen dollars, but comparing them to other books of the same sort (that is, history books), I doubt they would have charged much less without the illustrations. So I wonder how such illustrations figured into the price?
But a children's book would have many more illustrations, and would not be able to sell at such a high price, so I can see why Amazon taking a big cut would discourage such a project.
Which makes me wonder where an ebook of a novel with three or four color pictures would fall on the scale between prohibitively expensive and being something that could bring in a modest profit?
Edit: There is an illustrated Pride and Prejudice available now on Kindle, with about sixty AI generated portraits of the various characters. One might expect that to be expensive, based on the probable file size (and even taking into account the fact that the the person who is selling it did not have to pay to publish this very popular text because it is in the public domain), but in fact they are selling it for a mere 99 cents!
I wonder if this is meant to catch the attention of readers now, so that in a few months they can raise the price considerably.
Actually, this brings up a whole lot of other questions. But I won't ask any of them, because I don't want to dominate a thread supposed to be devoted to Stephen's new book, which I am sure will be wonderful even without pictures.
