Definitely has my attention.
Self-publishing will destroy the book industry in the end. They used to weld all this power, and they’d print any garbage that a big-name writer from twenty years ago produced...even if it was 3rd-rate stuff.
The limiting factor currently is that the mass of the public hasn’t flipped over to the e-book capability. We are still a decade away from the bulk of American society operating with e-books.
Me. Starting to... but of late, no real motivation for my writing-projects. :(
Yep. I’m ready to upload my 1st ebook next month. Just finishing my 10th rewrite. Lots of work but rewarding to just complete the process. If I make some $ even better.
So what are you working on ?
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I think what will happen : very quickly : now this is set-up, is it will encourage good writing.
Not leftist writing. Not even conservative writing, though conservatives are under-represented enough they will likely cause a bigger movement than liberals.
But this will encourage authors to write, to write often, and to write very well.
I am quite interested in this.
I don’t believe it.
Self-publishing has it’s place, but if someone wants to really do a great job it would be good to hire an editor.
Somehow, though, I suspect it won't bring in a vast fortune. Hopefully I'm wrong! :)
I have a handful of books (photo books) on sale on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. They bring in a few hundred (total) each month, but then I don’t do any promotion or anything at all.
Yep, even as I read just today a character say in a novel I’m reading that vanity presses are “pathetic”, and vanity literary agencies (as such apparently exist) are “really sad”. Whatever. The niches that sell e-books are however well defined, and they’re not exactly what is called ‘top shelf’, but if you fit into one of them, then sure, go right for it!
I’m already the author of a self-help best-seller published by Random House. But I’ve had no luck interesting agents or publishing houses in my new, award-winning first novel.
So I’ve set up my own self-publishing house (”Books of Destiny”). I used Amazon’s CreateSpace and Kindle Direct to self-publish the novel. Also used CreateSpace and Lightning Source/Irwin to publish another non-fiction work.
What I’ve learned in the process is that there’s no such thing as easy money in the publishing biz. So I’m returning to my core discipline as a marketer, and am about to begin to self-promote the sales of my books.
Please note that this post is NOT part of my marketing program. It’s just a cautionary note to those who may wish to enter the publishing arena on their own.
Got a bunch of stuff. For me worth looking into
If I ever finish one of my stories and it is long enough, I would consider it.
Maybe I can do an ebook called “First Draft Unfinished Stories”...
I wonder if this has anything to do with Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post. They have some big printing presses.
I have been looking into this method of publication quite seriously.
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Is he counting the figures after the decimal point?
Would rather flip through paper pages, preferably with a stick and scotch when possible.
I’ve read the Wool Omnibus series via kindle. Great scifi story of Big Brother meets apocalypse.
If you have a story to tell, it’s worth thinking about. I started writing in 1997 and there was no money in it at all, but I enjoyed doing it. Once the kindle came out and amazon started accepting self-published books, things took off in a big way.
I now make a living on the ebooks I write. I am not one of the amazon superstars, but I’ve got 29 fantasy books up there and another one on the way.
I think you should give it a shot.