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to those of you who've self-published on amazon: i heard they changed the way they calculate how much you make. how did it change? have you kept at it regardless? how is it going? i'd like to try breaking in but i wonder if there are any alternatives to amazon if the money will be crap.

it pays by how many pages they read now, not just the purchase of the book. frankly i think that's pretty stupid because there's lots of people out there who buy books and don't get around to reading them for awhile or never finish them and, although normally i hate comparisons to traditional publishing, those authors get paid by the sale, not by the read.

that said, amazon is still the best option because nothing else gets nearly this amount of traffic. the only comparable service is nook, which is dying.

that is the biggest pile of absolute horseshit i've seen in a while

what publishing company is feeling hugely threatened by amazon ebook sales?

there is literally no reason a change this stupid would be implemented otherwise

what the fucking hell

yuck. okay, i guess that's pretty much what i heard. anon, are you in the self-publishing business such as it is? how has this changed the way you price stuff? do you just post it for cheap as balls since you aren't being paid a proportion of the sale anymore? is there enough action to mean you at least turn SOME profit?

i don't really have good answers to any of those since i'm not grinding at it like some people do, i just get a trickle of sales on one title i have up. i definitely wouldn't change my prices though since the royalty amount hasn't changed and i don't see any advantage to going cheap, tbh. i'm making less money so i will change the price so i...make less money? if anything i'd think people are jacking them up because there's not much incentive to be price-competitive anymore. a reader isn't going to read more of a book because it's cheaper.

how do the royalty amounts work? do you get a percentage of the amount people drop on your book, and then added to that the .05 per page payment?

the way the royalty amounts work is that if you book is priced from .99 to 2.98 or 10 to 99.99 you get 35% royalty. if you're between 2.99 and 9.99 you get 70%. you can't price below .99 or above 99.99. i don't know how that interacts with the per page, to be honest, because i'm not really active, but i believe you get a per-page payout until you hit the royalty amount.

amazon also didn't send an email to authors (or if they did i didn't get it) explaining or announcing this, we found out when everyone else did. so there's some extra shade for you.

that makes sense but... wow, how obnoxious.

I might still try my luck since it sounds like it's the best service of its kind for getting writing out there.

good luck anon :) it's definitely still possible to have a good experience, despite this recent nonsense.

thank you! good luck to you too, in your present and future amazon endeavors.

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