This goes out to all those people who sit there on the Amazon forums and complain about how expensive Kindle books are.
Previously, Amazon was only giving the publisher (which can also mean the author if it is a self-published book) 35% of the sales price. So if your book was, say, $1, the profits [...]
Your friend is a writer. You love your friend and you want to support their interests, but you don’t know what their specific plans are. After all, a gift subscription to Writer’s Market only works if they are planning to look for an agent and maybe your friend wants to self-publish. In the same vein, [...]
23Sep09
Why your online store needs a return or exchange policy (even if you really don’t want to offer one)
eBay instituted a policy this week that requires all sellers to specify a return policy on every listing. While most stores still leave the decision to have a return policy up to the sellers and don’t require it, no matter where you sell, you should have a return policy.
I used to teach a workshop for [...]
17Sep09
Good news for publishers & authors! Amazon’s Search Inside the Book finally goes all digital!
Great news for authors and publishers out of Amazon HQ today. The Search Inside the Book program is (finally) going all digital. Previously, only some publishers could submit their books digitally and the rest had to mail a physical copy in which was not only costly but slow as heck.
At the same time as [...]
