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first suggestion: don’t take 2.5 years to write a book second suggestion: don’t go with a traditional publisher if you’re not getting a hefty advance- a small
by richardatlarge 2y ago
first suggestion: don’t take 2.5 years to write a book
second suggestion: don’t go with a traditional publisher if you’re not getting a hefty advance- a small advance means no publicity, and the royalty rates are too dismal to do your own advertising
go indie: with 70 percent royalties on ebooks you can make more than this author in a week
trad publishing is a club: don’t expect to make money when you join an elite(ist) club
- TimorousBestie 2y agoAssuming the seventy percent figure is KDP, there are so many restrictions on that tier an author rarely gets anywhere close to that rate. And charging 2.99 for an eBook is a death knell in some genres, it’ll cut sales by an order of magnitude.
- richardatlarge 2y agosorry, you don’t know what you’re talking about. as a KDP user, I see every day that it’s 70 percent, so $3.50 for a $5.00 retail price. at a minimum you’re not being clear.
- TimorousBestie 2y agohttps://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634500 https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634500 lays out the restrictions and costs associated with the 70% tier. Anyway, KDP is hardly “going indie.” It’s just boring old self-publishing with externalized capital expenditures.