Posted on 01 October 2011. Tags: amazon ebook writing, ebook authoring, ebook authors, ebook train, full time writers amazon
Recently I said, in a comment left at Joe Konrath’s blog… The train just lurched forward. Are you on it? Or are you waiting to see what happens? Up until this point, I’ve seen myself as standing at the train platform and watching various trains go by… thinking, that one isn’t it. [...]
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Posted on 23 June 2011. Tags: amazon authors, amazon for authors, amazon sales decline, amazon sales drop, ebook authors, ebooks
Apparently a LOT of people had that happen. J Konrath said he thinks it happened “across the board”. No, it didn’t – mine actually jumped considerably from last month – without having any new books in the pool to choose from. I am on track for about 29 books per day at the moment. That’s [...]
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Posted on 27 February 2011. Tags: amazon kindle, amazon kindle authors, amazon kindle books, joe konrath, mike schank
This has been eating at me for a while. Looking at Joe Konrath’s photo every time I visit his blog – was irking me for some reason and I couldn’t figure it out – until now. Some of you might say, it was just eating at me because the guy is making 28 times what [...]
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Posted on 07 December 2010. Tags: tom clancy head up ass, tom clancy new book
Click on the image to see the prices (12-8-10, UTC+7) This highlights the ridiculousness of the era we live in. I wouldn’t buy TC’s $17.92 Kindle book if you were going to beat me over the head with a gold bar. The fact that the Kindle version is almost $2.50 more than the hardcover version [...]
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Posted on 29 November 2010. Tags: 200 books sold, amazon kindle sales, november sales amazon kindle
Still nothing like what we want to sell – but, will make for a nice christmas for someone (not us). As it works out from last month, we’re making about $1.65 per book sold through Amazon Kindle, pricing the books at $2.99 and opting for the 70% commission rate. Yes, that does = $2.10 per [...]
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Posted on 21 October 2010. Tags: amazon book covers, amazon kindle cover designer, ebook covers, ebook graphics
I’ve had a handful of people ask me over the past couple weeks, “Who does your ebook covers?” I do them. Back in 1998 I was making graphics for eBay ads my brother and I had going. I didn’t have the slightest idea what I was doing, but the ads sold like crazy because I [...]
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