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01-23-2013, 12:28 PM | #32 |
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True and in addition if you want to give them away free anywhere (e.g. on my website) they can't be part of the KDP plan. Which means they have to be priced at least the minimum price - 99 cents currently.
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However, I do have an indie review blog so if an author can get onto my schedule (which admittedly is pretty difficult), the book will at least get read by me. I won't claim a massive readership because that would be a blatant lie. But I have been known to discuss indie books I've liked elsewhere, refer to them in group challenges in GoodReads, post reviews in Amazon and GoodReads and also, I will tend to purchase a book given to me if I like it enough. If I think it's good and fitting, I'll often buy multiple copies as gifts. Having said all of that, without very reasonable copy editing, the work won't get much air time from me. I won't go to a huge effort to spread bad press - but I won't do anything to promote either. I appreciate that it's quite difficult for an self-pub to get decent copy editing, but I think I end up doing more harm than good helping the distribution of poorly edited works. I've always wanted to try and post links to decent editing and cover art/illustration services on my site to help out indie authors looking for those services, but I wouldn't know a good editor if I tripped over one - and I wouldn't want to advertise sub-standard services. |
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01-25-2013, 06:06 AM | #39 | |
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I think that an author should make his/her book available to anyone who wants to buy it, even if the price is free. I should not have to buy it and then convert it to another format and hope that the conversion went well or spend time cleaning it up just to read a book. I already have hundreds of books to read and there are thousands more I can get without having to convert. I also do not want to give Amazon the idea that I approve of its desire to be vertically integrated in the book business. I do not want to see the day arrive when the only place I can buy a book is at Amazon. What will happen on that day when Amazon decides that there is more money to be had in only making zombie books available? I've heard the argument that someone else will pop up and challenge Amazon. The reality is that won't happen and any attempt to do so will take time before Amazon buries the new competitor. Look at what is happening in the UK market where Sony has started the 20p campaign. Amazon is willing to lose millions of dollars in price match. Do you think Books on Board could do the same? The Sony campaign is really an attempt to make Amazon lose money, not sell more books. Since the campaign has started and Amazon has price matched, most of the 20p books sold have been sold by Amazon, not Sony. Anyway, I do not want to encourage Amazon or authors to continue exclusive arrangements and so I simply refuse to buy or review such books. |
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01-25-2013, 06:17 AM | #41 | |
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Using myself as an example. I have edited more manuscript pages over the course of my 30-year editing career than most editors -- hundreds of thousands of pages. I have edited several thousand books. I have an extensive resource library at my fingertips (I mean print resources, not online resources) and I have taught editing to others multiple times. Sounds pretty good, I think, but I would be the wrong editor for most of you. My experience with fiction is limited; not nonexistent but limited. The bulk of my editing work is medical editing of books written by doctors for doctors. Could I do a good job for you on your novel? Yes, I believe I could -- depending on what you want by way of an editor. Are there editors who are better than me when it comes to fiction? Most definitely. But even someone who has only edited fiction for the past 20 years may not be the right editor for you and your book. Finding an appropriate editor is a hit-and-miss proposition. This is one of the values of an established publisher like Random House. They have experience with numerous editors and usually do a good job matching the editor to the author and the book. |
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