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Hello selfpub thread! I managed to write a short 11k word long romance thing just to test out the self-pub world and now it's in the editing-blurb-cover phase. All this talk about the adult dungeon worries me. How explicit can you get in the romance genre anyway? If there's one awkward Murakami-level sex scene with tasteful words used for penis and vagina, am I already done goofed? Plus what kind of fonts work for e-books these days? I wrote my first draft in Garamond, but my girlfriend put a veto on it, because she said that serif-fonts are exhausting to read. Is it really like so? I really haven't noticed any difference between fonts in literature unless a book has just a straight-up horrible typeset hack-job with displeasing margins and hand-feel. What do you guys think?
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Sep 18, 2015 05:53
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Piano Maniac posted:Hello selfpub thread! The content of the book doesn't matter as much, it's all about what words you use in the title and blurb and how much skin there is on your cover. From the sounds of it, you should be fine. I always just write in Times New Roman, but I have to admit it's not something I've ever put too much thought into.
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Sep 18, 2015 06:49
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The rule for professional graphic design is that large chunks of digital copy text should be sans serif, because it's much easier to read on a digital screen. Smaller details like serifs start to visually clutter the words. Notice how default phone text, regardless of OS or program, is like 99% sans serif? There's a reason for that. Having said that, I know people who throw absolute shitfits reading anything other than TNR on anything. It's awful, and you don't have to cater to those people, but they do exist.
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Sep 18, 2015 13:21
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Bardeh posted:try and find a deal for Scrivener The Mary Sue has Scrivener on sale right now for $19.50. (So glad I found somewhere to tell someone about this.)
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Sep 18, 2015 13:32
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EngineerSean posted:Anyway the situation with erotica on Amazon is a clusterfuck and I don't think it'll ever be really resolved. I mean they're 50% of the way right now, where if you type in blatantly adult keywords it puts a header over the search results that says some results were hidden, and you can click to see them. If they changed that so it said it was filtering adult results / click here to turn off safesearch, it would be so much better. Then they'd just need to unfuck the keywords, allow promotions within the erotica category and to not hide the whole thing in a filing cabinet behind a locked door with a sign on it saying 'beware of the tiger.' People would still try to get smut into legit categories, but i think people would sympathise with amazon a lot more if erotica wasn't such a clusterfuck (and not the good kind). Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Sep 18, 2015 |
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Sep 18, 2015 15:12
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Perma free, how does it stand right now? The last time I explored it one had to publish to D2D, set price to zero, and then spam Amazon with "it's cheaper here!" button. Does this still stand?
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Sep 18, 2015 16:36
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I did it about a month and a half ago. I set it at $0 on D2D, waited until it changed on those markets, then I sent Amazon an email through the customer support thing with like three links showing that it was $0 on other markets and asking to price match. They responded that they couldn't do anything, and then a few days later it was permafree on Amazon.
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Sep 18, 2015 16:56
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It went smoothly for me when I did it back in June. When I sent the email to Amazon I mentioned that it would help generate more sales for the rest of the series.
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Sep 18, 2015 19:13
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How has the Free Ranking held up long term? I'm seeing some novels with serious permafree sticking power. Pretty encouraging stuff.
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Sep 18, 2015 19:37
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got a small all star bonus for august! thanks amazon.co.uk. the brits sure do like my smut i guess!
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Sep 18, 2015 19:50
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the brotherly phl posted:got a small all star bonus for august! thanks amazon.co.uk. the brits sure do like my smut i guess! Congrats!
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Sep 18, 2015 21:31
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The Amazon page for Kindle romance currently has a huge promo banner advertising 100 romance books at $1.99 each. I know this price point has been considered dead in the past, so I wonder if that's going to change.
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Sep 19, 2015 18:42
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Blue Scream posted:The Amazon page for Kindle romance currently has a huge promo banner advertising 100 romance books at $1.99 each. I know this price point has been considered dead in the past, so I wonder if that's going to change. Not until they offer 70% on it. Until then, it'll continue to be dead.
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Sep 19, 2015 18:59
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Blue Scream posted:The Amazon page for Kindle romance currently has a huge promo banner advertising 100 romance books at $1.99 each. I know this price point has been considered dead in the past, so I wonder if that's going to change. I can't speak about this program in particular but when Amazon ssets your price to one ninety nine as part of a Kindle DDaily Deal, they pay you 70 percent on your list price. The price point is sstill dead unless Amazon says we'll pimp your book if you allow us to change your price
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Sep 19, 2015 21:36
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So Amazon is hosed and my reports aren't loading and there's no buy buttons on any book pages and I had about $100 worth of promo booked for today and gently caress everything 
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Sep 20, 2015 15:12
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Yeah Amazon's web services are down - no ones going to get any sales for a while, it seems. I work for a shipping company that handles Amazon parcels and we are getting HAMMERED right now since all the people who'd usually call them can't. Sorry about your promotion 
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Sep 20, 2015 16:42
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Has Amazon always shown ranks for Audiobooks? I'm just noticing it now, dunno if it's part of some change recently or not.
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Sep 21, 2015 01:07
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Since we're talking about audiobooks - has anyone tried making one?
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Sep 21, 2015 13:28
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Halbey posted:Since we're talking about audiobooks - has anyone tried making one? I put a few samples up on ACX with revenue share, and haven't had any offers yet. Is there a place to find the voice actors and ask them to work on your stuff?
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Sep 21, 2015 15:13
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Halbey posted:Since we're talking about audiobooks - has anyone tried making one? Are you asking about making them as in recording them yourself or making them as is having it done by a producer? I have 30+ audiobooks out and have always done royalty share. Part of the appeal is that I get extra money for work I've already done without having to do any additional effort. It isn't huge money compared to KU, but it is like free car payment each month.
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Sep 21, 2015 15:29
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I was asking about both, Fuzzy Hulk. What you are saying about getting a little extra from something you already put the work in on makes sense to me!
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Sep 21, 2015 15:59
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I've had several produced through ACX. Sales aren't great, and after they switched their royalty rates to a flat scheme really not worth it for me. I decided to produce my latest book as an audio drama serial instead.
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Sep 21, 2015 19:09
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EngineerSean posted:I'd like to mention that many of us have tried audiobooks and found their sales to be really dismal. Nobody who makes serious money seems to make any more than 1% of their money from audiobooks. Not only that, but ACX (the company that you're going through) takes 60% of each audiobook sale for themselves just for posting it to Amazon and iTunes, or twice the fee that Amazon takes for eBooks. They don't even seem to promote them at all, but they'll sure as hell discount them as much as they want. I really don't like the current audiobook structure and am waiting for a new retailer that will allow us to control pricing before I jump in with more. Still waiting for that new retailer, a year later.
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Sep 21, 2015 21:10
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Fall is upon us. It's time for me to pimp my covers because I'm broke again and the wolves are howling. Basically what I'm saying is that I updated my store with new stuff and also moved it to a SquareSpace installation so now it's super dope. Go buy some covers. covers covers  Also huntin' for editing clients, should anyone have need. After editing this last project, a sci-fi romance behemoth at 170k words, I feel I can tackle anything.
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Sep 21, 2015 22:42
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http://blog.oysterbooks.com/ Oyster books is sunsetting their existing mobile reading service. They say it's because they're focused on the next big thing in mobile reading, but Google's already hired much of their staff. The competition thins!
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Sep 22, 2015 16:24
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Transmogrifier posted:The Mary Sue has Scrivener on sale right now for $19.50. (So glad I found somewhere to tell someone about this.) Is this the popular choice around here? Do any of you find it distracting compared to Word or GDocs?
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Sep 22, 2015 23:51
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Kramdar posted:Is this the popular choice around here? Do any of you find it distracting compared to Word or GDocs? It's great for novels. I don't use it for shorts.
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ravenkult posted:It's great for novels. I don't use it for shorts. FWIW I use it for everything. It lets you export directly to .mobi in a format that Amazon loves to grant excessive amounts of KENP to.
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Sep 23, 2015 02:16
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Kramdar posted:Is this the popular choice around here? Do any of you find it distracting compared to Word or GDocs? It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you have it down it's amazing. It's so much easier to keep track of longer stuff, you can outline, plot, sketch characters, and so on. Plus, you can export your file to any ebook format you want once you're done.
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Sep 23, 2015 04:11
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I too use Scrivener and love it. Well worth the money, in fact I bought a second copy for my wife. Now that I think of it I have three copies now, another on a laptop. Word of warning, it doesn't play well with Google Drive or Onecloud. I use Dropbox and don't have any issues.
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Sep 23, 2015 12:57
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I love Scrivener and the only thing that would improve it for me is being able to sync poo poo to my google drive. e: also thanks for the reminder to get Battuta's book! Hell yes!
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Sep 23, 2015 14:48
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:FWIW I use it for everything. It lets you export directly to .mobi in a format that Amazon loves to grant excessive amounts of KENP to. Is this actually true? I might want to invest in it then if so..
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Sep 23, 2015 15:11
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Anyone had a Booksend promo lately? Happy with the results? I've got one coming in about a month.
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Sep 23, 2015 16:13
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Yooper posted:Anyone had a Booksend promo lately? Happy with the results? I haven't booked them in a long time but now that they offer a Pixel of Ink sponsorship (for an extra hundo) I might consider it again.
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Sep 23, 2015 16:26
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That's the one I picked up this time. We'll see how it goes.
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the brotherly phl posted:Is this actually true? I might want to invest in it then if so.. If you're already getting 150-180 words per KENPC, then Scrivener probably won't do much for you. But if your average is higher than that, then it's probably a good $19 well spent. https://deals.mac-forums.com/sales/scrivener-2 ^^^- For what it's worth, someone on another forum was very upset with Booksends because they're acting like a middleman for PoI I guess. The person booked a promo with PoI and Booksends accepted their payment and told them they were good to go. The day of the promo Booksends tells them that PoI rejected their promo and refunded them. Jalumibnkrayal fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:^^^- For what it's worth, someone on another forum was very upset with Booksends because they're acting like a middleman for PoI I guess. The person booked a promo with PoI and Booksends accepted their payment and told them they were good to go. The day of the promo Booksends tells them that PoI rejected their promo and refunded them. It's interesting you mentioned that because I started out looking at PoI, then was redirected to Booksends.. So far everything has been handled by Booksends. I'm assuming I've got both, as I paid for both, and was invoiced for both. This is on Pixel of Inks website -  edit : It feels like someone bought a mailing list and is melding it into one service.
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