Re: Now They're Being Really Annoying
"auwg" <auwg-/[email protected]>
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--- In [email protected], "joseph harris" wrote: > From: "auwg" > > The old publishing model and those who support it can go the way of the dinosaurs. > > Ed > > One of the biggest problems for small publishers is that the main market is through Amazon. Is it? I find Fictionwise consistently outsells Amazon with my titles. YMMV, etc, but Amazon and BN haven't impressed me even a little bit. > Amazon is the focus of constant complaints for its treatment of small publishers. And it has shown an amazing ability to set any terms it likes for small publishers. Always was like that. One reason I was in no hurry to put my stuff there. When I finally did it, it was only to be able to send people to a place they knew and reach the Kindle crowd. No thrilling results from that yet. Amazon and BN amount to just less than 12% of my sales. > If small publishers would only set up their own selling channels in a unified and supportive way... Ha. Luck with organizing that. :) > Meanwhile the playing field will continue to be tilted by the traditional business methods. Yup. Seems likely. Also seems likely we'll see some changes as they adapt in proprietary ways to the new market. Ed Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction http://www.AbintraPress.com ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ Post a message: ebook-community [[at]] * Unsubscribe: ebook-community-unsubscribe [[at]] * Switch to digest: ebook-community-digest [[at]] * Switch to normal: ebook-community-normal [[at]] * Put mail on hold: ebook-community-nomail [[at]] * Administrator: ebook-community-owner [[at]] * (* == yahoogroups.com) -------------------------------------------------------Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebook-community/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] ebook-community-fullfeatured-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ebook-community-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/