That too, but...
Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Fri May 05, 2017 5:35 pm
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A .99 cent SALE makes me about .36 cents.
A 2.99 sale makes about 2.00 even (They get calculated at different rates.)
A book borrow (this number changes each month...) will earn about 1.36 or so. It also varies by length...
That is about a guess. It's close to that. So on the first books, or ones I want to push sales toward (hence lowering the price) I make far more on a borrow and read, compared to a simple sale.
The truth is though that I'd MUCH rather have a million reads and make enough to be comfortable than to have millions of dollars with my work just sitting there, gathering virtual dust.
Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Tue Apr 04, 2017 9:51 pm
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While sales are dropping, across the board, it seems to be about the economy, nothing else. KU does hurt sales, but pulling out of it doesn't increase anything. You still have low sales, people just don't borrow your books, so that revenue stream vanishes, and your ratings on Amazon drop.
I'm all in on KU, for the time being. If nothing else, we certainly live in interesting times!
Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Tue Apr 04, 2017 4:30 pm
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In SOME places this has been caught out. KU has a flaw if you use something called page flip? It counts each book you use with it as one page, if you return to the front of the book when you are finished with it. (Instead of leaving on the last page?) Now, this probably isn't a huge thing, but when approached with the information and proof, Amazon shrugged and basically said they aren't even going to try and fix it.
Sales have dropped a lot, even as I do pretty well, personally. I wasn't kidding when I said that I think this will be a really big year for me as an author...
But I'm one of the lucky few that way.
There are some problems with the Zon right now. One big one is that Trump is on the record as gunning for them, claiming they are a monopoly. That could be an issue.
Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Mon Jan 02, 2017 7:22 pm
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Unless Amazon is planning to spin off Kindle and its publishing arm. Its happened to the business I worked for. GM decided Saginaw Steering Gear was too deversified from their intent to just build cars. Even though SSG was quite profitable. I guess it was too distracting. Beyond that they (GM) didn't like the fact that we (SSG), a mere supplier, were making as much as their final assembly people were there by causing a wage spiral. In union v. management, that's known as whipsawing, pitting one labor force against another to artificially inflate or deflate wages. Sorry, got caught there. Bad memories.
Any way, those are my thoughts.
Statistics: Posted by Ronald Dukarski — Mon Jan 02, 2017 1:37 pm
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They do that all the freaking time! Only NOT consistently. I didn't even start the process until the whole world was onto 2017! Grrr...
Well, it doesn't really matter. Amazon is failing at a platform for books right now. I don't know if all e-books are going that way or if it's just them at the moment. Hopefully it picks back up?
Statistics: Posted by PS Power — Mon Jan 02, 2017 10:02 am
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btw: Publication Date: December 31, 2016
Statistics: Posted by qHnED7SnYgQs — Sun Jan 01, 2017 11:59 pm
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Any chance we might see a new Tony Winters in the future? He is the best boy ever, you know.
Statistics: Posted by willallen — Sun Jan 01, 2017 9:33 pm
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