I don't know if I'd even be allowed to do such a thing, but I was thinking that I'd try to set that up, and maybe place a bit about it at the end of the books.
Why?
Amazon.com is, over time, slowly taking a bigger piece of the pie, every few months ratcheting what gets paid to authors down. Normally in subtle ways. With similar sales and borrows as always, I've seen what I've been earning each month drop. It's now 1/5th of what it used to be. Again, the sales are fine...
So, I need to learn to get around them.
What kind of incentives would people like? You know, if you give x dollars a month, you get something from me. (Normally something fairly inexpensive. For instance, if you give five a month, you would get each book or project as it comes out, in multiple formats instead of just getting it from Amazon? That would have to be direct, I think, since anything in KU (where most of the money is coming from now...) can't be up online anywhere else.)
So, what would be good? No one should be giving more than ten to twenty dollars a month. Even at that, I'd have to increase what I was doing, if I can, to make it worth their while. (Otherwise, why not just pay $4.99 for the book when it come out. Or less, since I do that too...)
Any thoughts would be good. What would work for you, personally? It has to be pretty attractive.![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
Let me know what your thoughts are!
Dale
Why?
Amazon.com is, over time, slowly taking a bigger piece of the pie, every few months ratcheting what gets paid to authors down. Normally in subtle ways. With similar sales and borrows as always, I've seen what I've been earning each month drop. It's now 1/5th of what it used to be. Again, the sales are fine...
So, I need to learn to get around them.
What kind of incentives would people like? You know, if you give x dollars a month, you get something from me. (Normally something fairly inexpensive. For instance, if you give five a month, you would get each book or project as it comes out, in multiple formats instead of just getting it from Amazon? That would have to be direct, I think, since anything in KU (where most of the money is coming from now...) can't be up online anywhere else.)
So, what would be good? No one should be giving more than ten to twenty dollars a month. Even at that, I'd have to increase what I was doing, if I can, to make it worth their while. (Otherwise, why not just pay $4.99 for the book when it come out. Or less, since I do that too...)
Any thoughts would be good. What would work for you, personally? It has to be pretty attractive.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
Let me know what your thoughts are!
Dale