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Dickloraine – I'm very happy someone understood the $7, reminds me of that movie Payback where Mel has to repeatedly correct the mobsters. You almost got me talked into it, but $10 for an ebook seems high to me... No? See, if I sell it myself it will be $7 to the customer and that sounds reasonable to me. I would pay that much without thinking, that is if I read ebooks which I don't. I like 140 year old books but Optical Character Recognition makes the Paperwhite I got when it first came out useless, haven't read one book on it. Plus, to me, with this new to me negative attitude toward Intellectual Property, that people would likely pay $7, but if it was $10 it would more likely be torrented.
I don't understand this:
“Sales are normally something you want to have, but I don't know, if you even get into one, if you don't choose to be in the kindle program. You have then complete control. Even if you go into kindle exclusive, you can opt out after a few month.”
General – I understand the concerns and the integrity of the people here, that's why I'm here... So, what should I do? Sign the scary contract and (try to) sell it for $9.99 on Amazon? And I only have to get one (edited) version of Mobi right? Or will they do it? I have shied away (Or completely stopped because they won't tell more unless I agree.) from the contract, but heard they convert it into their format...? Is this what I don't understand of the quote above? The contract expires in a couple of months if I end up not liking the deal? See, I don't know, there is a lot of legal crap in there.
What about Shop Integrator? Is there something better? What else should I know? Price talk and prestige talk is find, but that isn't what I'm asking for. The way I see it the most famed author out there selling the most books is not the type of book that I read and probably never will, it just isn't interesting to me. Maybe I should just give up, I am a bit concerned about the tax issue of global commerce and maybe falling into a goof up like Tommy Chong selling glassware to Pennsylvania, as it could very well be illegal in some countries so a buffer maybe welcome. Then again can I sell them (both ebook and paper) on my site AND Amazon at the same time? Yes, I know your not legal counsel, give me your best shot. Actually I could be writing at least one more if not two more books, but they will be scathing and then move on to something else. I didn't want to be an author in the first place, I just ran into something very interesting while doing private entertainment research is all.
I just read the article on Hitch's site about spelling and other minor problems in books... interesting. But, reminds me of something else about scary contracts and Intellectual Property, once it is in Amazon's domain won't it be wholesale-ly open to Look Inside features, public library distribution, and Google scans... I know patent rights much better, but it seems like the whole lot of intellectual property has been thrown right out the window. From what I gather the younger generation believes in socialism or communism where in they believe they have as much rights as the producer. BTW, I wanted my book in public libraries, but found out they want an exclusive three month before publishing look (Which I was unaware of.) or get lost attitude.
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