Posted on 08/05/2013 9:42:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's been called a "cure for rejection-letter fatigue."
Amazon on Thursday released new details about the success of its program for authors who want to self-publish on its Kindle e-reader devices. The company, which unveiled a suite of new e-readers and tablets at a press conference in Southern California on Thursday, says 27 of the top 100 Kindle books were created using a system called Kindle Direct Publishing.
That system allows authors to bypass traditional publishers and instead deal directly with Amazon, which claims to be able to publish their books digitally "in hours."
The authors receive 70% of the royalties from the sale of these books. And some of them are doing quite well.
"Most of my months are six-figure months," said Hugh Howey, a 37-year-old Florida author whose "Wool" series of digital books was highlighted by Amazon. "It's more than I ever hoped to make in a year."
The company says some authors, including Theresa Ragen, who appeared in a promotional video during the Amazon event, have sold hundreds of thousands of books.
During the event Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos displayed a quote from Kathryn Stockett, author of best-selling novel "The Help," in which she lamented being rejected dozens of times before a publisher accepted her.
"What if I had given up at 15? Or 40? Or even 60?" she was quoted as saying......
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Exacly
Maybe you should start off small — say 10,000 pages or so.
Congrats! Sounds great!
Is there going to be a path that takes you through the book, but leaves out all the stuff you’ve already read several times?
I’ve read quite a few that are self-published on Kindle. Some have interesting plot lines but the spelling and grammar are so poor that it is distracting. Some I have quit reading.
The progs murdered my ratings on Amazon.com. But that was expected. Patriots rallied and pretty much made up for the slander.
It was a wonderful experience but I'm not sure I'll do it again. Lost a boat load of money (mostly on marketing) and won't see a break even ever, I think. Unless a bunch of people discover the book and start buying it.
But others have pointed out the main problem: if you don't market your ebook effectively, it's just another computer file among tens of millions. Nobody will even know it exists.
My wife wants me to write a sequel. Doesn't take a lot of sense to predict what happens when you elect a Marxist and convert a capitalist economy to a socialist one. The Rise of President Zero is predicting what's happening now.
HOWEVER, anyone who thinks that he/she can take a MS Word ( or WordPerfect) document, push it through KDP software, and get a decently formatted book on the other end is seriously deluded.
Also, please note that a FEW authors have made substantial money through Amazon. The vast majority have not. Yes Hugh Howey makes a lot of money. Hugh Howey also writes very good science fiction with a large following.
I have not had a single six figure month. So, your results may vary.
Anyone wishing to know more is welcome to PM me.
yes and it apparently has different formats for short story, novels and screen plays
You asked if Amazon lets you preview the books.
If you purchase you have the right for a refund. If you get one on a free day, what’s the difference?
I’ve put up 12 books, l0 non-fiction and two fiction, with two more on the way. I’m a retired journalist but previously I would never have written a book because you would never get it published. This way it’s pick ‘em up and lay ‘em down. You do your print version at CreateSpace. That too is easy and free.
I’m with you. I have books over 250 years old, and love the texture of the paper, the smell, the differences in writing style. For ‘junk reading’ (fun, but of little consequence in the grand scheme of things), a paperback is fine...often complete with ‘noseprints’ for bookmarks...read to unwind before/as I went to sleep.
ping self publish
Thank you, for being a true blue conservative, unlike many on FR.
Including the under-dresses, and small clothes.
I also got sick and tired of Nynaeve tugging her braid at people.
Simple answer, he was paid by the word, and his editors let him get away with it.
One of the beauties of the printed word, is that it is far more difficult to change...electronic formats lend themselves to easy revision. Hard copy is.
Tell me about it. When I was writing the DMZ report in Korea for the President, SecDef, JCS and etc. (on a manual typewriter) if I made any kind of mistake it went into the burn bag and I had to start over. No wite-out on that kind of document.
I gave up after reading Winters Heart.
When I got my first word processor, though, I lost my fear of typos and just started hammering the keys (literally, because the old manuals had better than an inch of key travel). Being able to proofread and edit before you printed it out was a Godsend!
When I am done with the material I write professionally, those galleys go to the printer. and it is glorious to be able to do all that without printing a page until it is ready.
Scrivener. e-book self publishing. writing ideas.
interesting
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