My Foray into Self-publishing
Everyone was excited when the Kindle 70% royalty went live. But now folks are grumbling. Why? Because of the fine print. Amazon doesn’t pay the 70% royalty based on the list price, which is the price the publisher set. It pays it based on the price in effect when a copy sells. To match sale prices [...]
I see this question asked a lot “out there,” especially for Canada. You see, as I’ve mentioned in other posts, Amazon.ca is a scaled down version of Amazon.com. If you want to publish to the Kindle and go to Amazon.ca, you won’t find what you’re looking for. To publish to the Kindle, you must use Amazon’s [...]
Posted in Amazon, Kindle, Organizations on Apr 9th, 2010
First off, I stumbled across a new organization, the Association of Independent Authors. Time will tell whether it gains momentum. I’m wondering what it will offer that organizations like SPAN and IBPA don’t already cover. The Services Directory might be worth a look if you decide to drop by. Second, I noticed that the Kindle version of [...]
Posted in Amazon on Apr 9th, 2010
Monitoring the various Amazon sites to make sure my book is showing up all right has been a fascinating experience. Before this, I’d assumed that all Amazon sites drew their information from a central database. Not so. They seem to operate as independent entities. Reviews, tags, availability, and book information can vary from one Amazon site [...]
Aaron Shepard’s Aiming at Amazon: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Your Books with Print on Demand and Online Book Marketing on Amazon.com describes one way to self-publish if your goal is to focus on online bookstores. In fact, the first sentence in version 2.0 is: “Yes, I said it: Forget [...]
