Comments on: Amazon’s New Royalty Structure

By: Raymon Rudel

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Friday Link Love 1/22 | Brad’s Reader — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:16:26 +0000

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By: Bree

Bree — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:19:39 +0000

@Swan: In this case, I’m going to have to disagree with you about the motivations. Not that text-to-speech isn’t a hot-button issue, but I think discounting the incredibly outrageous prices on a lot of ebooks is unwise. Most hardback books come out with ebook prices that are $10-$20, and that is absurd. The big fight going on right now about ebook sales cannibalizing print sales could find a compromise if the money is good enough. Now they just need to deal with the bestseller-list problem.

I also am not with the Author’s Guild on the text-to-speech issue. A performance of a book is NOT the same as a robotic computerized voice reading it to you, and it’s not like this technology hasn’t been around pretty much since the first time an ebook got loaded on a computer. But this is probably not the platform to rehash THAT debate! All I can say is that I’m very, very glad all of my ebooks have Text-to-Speech enabled.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:18:08 +0000

Money flows towards the author, not away. -Yog’s Law

I’m not sure how that applies to self-publishing with Amazon, since McDonald was talking about vanity/subsidy publishing outfits that solicit n00b authors in hopes of scamming them out of their dough when he coined that particular gem.

Technically, if you self-pubbed something through Amazon’s Kindle Store and sold for crap, you’re still in the clear as far as Yog’s Law, because you have not paid for the “privilege” of publishing.

Vanity publishing and self-publishing are not the same animal.

By: Swan

Swan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:05:46 +0000

First of all, its clear to me that this is Amazon’s response to the flap over text-to-speech. You’re not losing an important right and/or side-business in audiobooks (not that you ever were!), you’re doubling your royalty!
Second of all, WOW, I had no idea self-publishing was that “easy” with Amazon! Assuming I had a completed manuscript, and a cover, I’m just a few online forms away from having it Listed with Amazon and making cents on the dollar assuming anyone actually bought it??
That almost gives me enough motivation to finish my novel about the native american werewolves and demon possessed math grad dropout slash techno-wizard.

Money flows towards the author, not away. -Yog’s Law

By: Bree

Bree — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:11:36 +0000

@Likari: Thank you! I had a lot of fun coming up with it, along with Ann’s help.

By: Likari

Likari — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:37:22 +0000

This is great news. — and the cover for Stone Maiden is beautiful!