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frahse · 10-25-2011, 01:24 AM

Any author that has the chance to sign up with Amazon with a reasonable financial deal should do it.

The only reasons an author might have to not sign are generally strange, whimsical, political and I think self defeating. They can do the J.K. Rowlings thing and declare that their book will not be sold in digital form at all because of strange emotional yearnings for old dark and musty stacks, and fragments of trees in their hands.

Well that is O.K. for people that own castles, but for the normal modern author, digital and Amazon are a big part of the future.

The online store provides used 1 penny copies of many of J.K. Rowlings books with $3.99 shipping for a total cost delivered to your house of $4.00 of which she gets nothing, but she is willing to eschew selling a $9.99 digital copy.

"Go figure!"

10-25-2011, 01:24 AM	#91
frahse occasional author Posts: 2,315 Karma: 2064403292 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Wandering God's glorious hills, valleys and plains. Device: A Franklin BI (before Internet) was the first. I still have it.	Every reason to sign! Any author that has the chance to sign up with Amazon with a reasonable financial deal should do it. The only reasons an author might have to not sign are generally strange, whimsical, political and I think self defeating. They can do the J.K. Rowlings thing and declare that their book will not be sold in digital form at all because of strange emotional yearnings for old dark and musty stacks, and fragments of trees in their hands. Well that is O.K. for people that own castles, but for the normal modern author, digital and Amazon are a big part of the future. The online store provides used 1 penny copies of many of J.K. Rowlings books with $3.99 shipping for a total cost delivered to your house of $4.00 of which she gets nothing, but she is willing to eschew selling a $9.99 digital copy. *"Go figure!"*