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Comment by JoeAltmaier | Hacker News Reader

Well, maybe, but most of us suffer from under-pricing our apps. Amazon's deal only allows them to further discount from your stated 'list price'. I don't see how they can improve things in this common case. I suspect (am utterly sure) they will price things to maximize Amazon's income, not mine. Which may mean deeply discounting my app as part of some campaign to boost their total sales - which won't benefit me one iota.

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So make your list price higher than your current price and let Amazon figure out what's best. Unless I'm missing something, Amazon's getting a percentage, so their income is maximized when your income is maximized.

That's naieve. They have many products. They may use yours as a 'loss leader', they may experiment with your price, they may decide your product is worse than another one and position it as the low-tier offering and choose a price to enhance the sales of the higher-tier product (not yours).

You can't set the list price any higher than anywhere else.

i. List Price. The “List Price” for an App is an amount that does not exceed, at any time, the lowest list price or suggested retail price for such App (including any similar edition, version or release) available or previously available on any Similar Service or the lowest actual price at which you make or made such App available for sale through any Similar Service. You will update the List Price for each App as necessary to ensure that it meets the requirements of this section 5i.

You could just differentiate your product by releasing the Amazon super version that includes some trivial feature not available in the Android market version. Clearly such a feature is worth doubling the list price.

they will price things to maximize Amazon's income, not mine

But, I assume, Amazon and the developer split the sale price? If so, then the more money amazon make, the more money you make, right?

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