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April L. Hamilton commented on the blog post Amazon v. Macmillan: Authors, Are You Backing The Right Horse?
Carol -It’s fine in Firefox, but not Internet Explorer. Since IE is the more popular of those two browsers, you might want to look into it.
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April L. Hamilton commented on the blog post Amazon v. Macmillan: Authors, Are You Backing The Right Horse?
Carol – I can “get there” without a problem, but when I do, this is all I see:
So, what no one is talking about is the little line that Amazon slipped into their announcement package: ” For each Kindle book sold, authors and publishers who choose the new 70 percent royalty option will receive 70 [...]2 years ago · View
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April L. Hamilton commented on the blog post Amazon v. Macmillan: Authors, Are You Backing The Right Horse?
Carol -
I tried to read your blog post, but it’s truncated so I don’t know what your concerns are.
However, as I stated in my post, Amazon’s intention to charge .15 per MB of ebook content is no big deal. On static ebooks this comes out to an average of .06 per book, but what [...]2 years ago · View
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April L. Hamilton wrote a new blog post: Amazon v. Macmillan: Authors, Are You Backing The Right Horse? 2 years ago · View
Herewith, I present an updated and amended cross-posting of my blog post on the Amazon v. Macmillan affair. Let me state up front, I do not agree with Amazon’s strongarm tactics, and it is not my intention to defend those actions in this post. Rather, I’m puzzled by authors’ nearly universal lack of criticism for Macmillan’s part in the matter. I [...] -
April L. Hamilton commented on the blog post Amazon v. Macmillan: Authors, Are You Backing The Right Horse?
UPDATE – THIS JUST IN 2/4/10: According to this report on the Wall Street Journal (http://bit.ly/9NIh6V), Hachette is already attempting to renegotiate its Kindle book terms to match its deal with Apple, too. But why are publishers so anxious to get out from under the thumb of Jeff Bezos, only to wedge themselves beneath Steve [...]
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April L. Hamilton commented on the blog post Amazon v. Macmillan: Authors, Are You Backing The Right Horse?
UPDATE – THIS JUST IN – According to E-Reads (http://bit.ly/btk3i2) Macmillan is now saying that going forward, its standard ebook royalty in boilerplate contracts will be 25%, *not* the 20% it came out with last October. This really has no bearing on my post overall, I just wanted to include this new information since the [...]
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April L. Hamilton wrote a new blog post: Amazon v. Macmillan: Authors, Are You Backing The Right Horse?
Herewith, I present an updated and amended cross-posting of my blog post on the Amazon v. Macmillan affair. Let me state up front, I do not agree with Amazon’s strongarm tactics, and it is not my intention to defend those actions in this post. Rather, I’m puzzled [...]
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April L. Hamilton commented on the blog post Publishing as a Business Decision
Mick Rooney is right when he says I am the sort of self-publisher who’s doing everything myself. However, that doesn’t mean that when I say the decision of whether or not to self-publish is a business decision, I am saying that a desire to turn a profit is the only legitimate reason to publish, by [...]
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April L. Hamilton wrote on their own wire:
Robert -
Well, passion is prerequisite for a career in indie authorship, so it’s to be expected that these ”disagreements” can get heated. It was very, VERY difficult for me to remain calm and maintain a positive tone during that particular exchange, so I appreciate your support.2 years ago · View
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April L. Hamilton posted a new status update:
Working on a deadline to deliver the revised/updated ms of The IndieAuthor Guide to Writer’s Digest, so forgive me if I’m pretty scarce around here. =’p
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April Hamilton commented on the blog post Not Your Father’s Self-Publishing
Jane -
I think I said “channels”, not “methods”. There’s a difference, as you pointed out.
The only thing that interests me in this matter is the outcome, not the means. To me, if a consumer can walk into a store and order a self-pubber’s book the same way he can order a mainstream-published author’s book, [...]2 years, 1 month ago · View
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April Hamilton commented on the blog post Not Your Father’s Self-Publishing
To clarify my above comment -
When I talk about making one’s book available for order from any bookseller outlet, I don’t mean just available to the bookseller’s own buying agents. Having your self-pubbed book listed in the right catalogs/listings makes it available for any consumer to order from any bookseller (except maybe a used bookstore [...]2 years, 1 month ago · View
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April Hamilton commented on the blog post Not Your Father’s Self-Publishing
Jane -
This is really getting down to semantics and hairsplitting.
Self-pubbers *can* get their books into all the same bookseller outlets as mainstream-published books by having them listed in catalogs and therefore available for those stores to order. Is it *likely* that self-pubbers will achieve this goal? No. I’ve never said otherwise; it’s very, very [...]2 years, 1 month ago · View
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April Hamilton commented on the blog post Not Your Father’s Self-Publishing
Jane -
Actually, self-pubbers have access to ALL the same distribution channels mainstream authors do, with just one exception: they do not have a sales rep going out to brick-and-mortar stores, trying to get those stores to stock their books. A self-pub author can attempt to fulfill that role himself as well, but in all frankness, [...]2 years, 1 month ago · View
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April Hamilton commented on the blog post Not Your Father’s Self-Publishing
VJ – Didn’t you notice this paragraph in the piece?
“I’m not saying self-publishing is a slide on ice in comparison to the mainstream path. Many self-published books are of poor quality in terms of content or production—but so are many mainstream books. Most self-published books never earn a profit—but neither do most mainstream books. Self-published [...]2 years, 1 month ago · View
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April L. Hamilton wrote a new blog post: Not Your Father’s Self-Publishing 2 years, 2 months ago · View
Things in self-publishing have changed a lot just in the past couple of years. Awareness of, and respect for, self-publishing has grown to the point that it’s virtually gone mainstream. Yet based on some posts and comments I’ve seen around the web in the wake of the Harlequin Horizons/DellArte Press rumpus, it’s clear to me there’s [...] -
April Hamilton wrote a new blog post: Not Your Father’s Self-Publishing
Things in self-publishing have changed a lot just in the past couple of years. Awareness of, and respect for, self-publishing has grown to the point that it’s virtually gone mainstream. Yet based on some posts and comments I’ve seen around the web in the wake of [...]
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