Hello Doug-
I add my congratulations, on the finishing of the book as well as the
technology of your publishing!
I already have my Kindle-for-Mac app, so I could get the latest Seth
Godin...Yours is next.
fyi:
In the same week as Barry Eisler turned down that half-million
advance, Amanda Hocking, a 26-yr old phenomemon who has already made 2
million dollars writing specifically for kindles et al, signed a
$2million deal with a major publisher so she could reach more readers
through bookstores.
In the publishing business newsletter in which this was all cited,
Nathan Bransford added
"Industry sage Mike Shatzkin calls it "a key benchmark on the road to
wherever it is we're going."
Victoria
> Get SFX to develop an app for authors to sign ebooks/kindles/etc
On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Amigo,
In rough order, answered as asked:
An account on kdb.amazon.com. And a book.
Paper? What's that?
I read an article on SlashDot about a NYT best selling author who
spurned a $500,000 book deal from a large publishing house to self-
publish instead (at $0.99 per). I read one of his books & decided I
could do at least as well.
Amazon offers two basic royalty deals: 70% to the author, as long as
you price the book between $2.99 and $9.99, or 35% royalty and you
price as you wish.
Finally, if you think it is crap, you are obligated to feed me
Bourbon (or a decent single malt Scotch, or Chivas -- a blend that I
find myself partial to) whilst explaining why.
There, I think that about covers it...
Dude^2
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
Dude -
I'm Downloading now... Kindle-for-Mac reader first then my splurgy
$.99 book...
I'm sure I'm not the only one curious about the process (to date,
and in the future as it unfolds).
What did it take to get published this way?
Is there a paper-edition in the works (if you get enough digital
sales first)?
How did you discover this mechanism, was it obvious/well-publicized?
What is their deal? Is it like Apps where you get a significant
percentage?
If I think it is crap, can I ask for my $.49 (if that is your cut)
back?
Can I take it out in good Bourbon? Or Patio Bricks?
- Dud
*** Apologies to those of you who see this more than once this due
to social network overlap ***
Dear FRIAM friends, colleagues, and acquaintances (you all can
envision the Venn diagram that places you in your particular state-
space):
Please join me in celebrating the fact that today I published my
first book.
Second Cousins is a science fiction novel, set in the current day.
From the "Dust Jacket":
Preface
24,000 years ago during the last ice age, what is now White Sands
National Monument in southern New Mexico was then a 1,600 square
mile lake which geologists have named Lake Otero. Gradually the
weather became drier and warmer as the ice age retreated, and the
gypsum that had been dissolved in the lake deposited out as the
lake dried up, leaving the modern-day pure white dunes of gypsum
sand.
At the southern end of this range of dunes on what is now part of
the White Sands Missile Range, the sands have drifted, exposing
something that should not have been there.
___
Second Cousins is available as a Kindel e-book for the ridiculously
affordable price of $0.99. Here's the link to it:
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Cousins-ebook/dp/B004WF4DXE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1302741713&sr=1-1
Don't have a Kindle? No problem. If you really want to splurge
the 99 cents, Amazon has free Kindle apps for practically any
device. Check it out:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_ipad_mkt_lnd?docId=1000493771
The first 100 people who request one will also receive a free
signed copy of the book cover. The cover art was done by the
marvelous Jenica Cruz, graphic artist extrordinaire!
Cheers!
--Doug
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